Event: Debunking the AI Climate Hoax

Join us online for this funders’ briefing on debunking the AI climate hoax, Tuesday 26 May, 2-3pm CET.

Data centres are being built across the world to power insatiable AI technology. These are increasing demand for fossil fuels, guzzling fresh water to keep servers cool, and harming already disadvantaged communities. Tech corporations and governments justify data centre expansion among other reasons on the grounds that AI will ‘solve climate change’ –  claiming it can help cut emissions from energy, transport and industry. 

In The AI Climate Hoax: Behind the Curtain of How Big Tech Greenwashes Impacts, Ketan Joshi investigated these claims. At this funders’ briefing he will share his findings, and how funders and civil society organisations can fight back against the current narrative of powering AI at all costs.  

Ketan Joshi is an analyst, writer and communicator specialising in clean energy, corporate accountability and advocacy. He has worked with renewable energy companies in data analysis and advocacy, government renewable energy agencies, the Commonwealth Industrial and Scientific Research Organisation (CSIRO, Australia) in the Data61 unit, and wrote “Windfall: unlocking a fossil free future” with the University of New South Wales press, published in 2020. 

The report “The AI Climate Hoax” was commissioned and published by the Green Screen Coalition together with Beyond Fossil Fuels, Climate Action Against Disinformation (CAAD), Friends of the Earth U.S., Green Web Foundation and Stand.earth. 

Please get in touch with Peggye to request an invitation to this online funders’ briefing.

Please note this event is aimed at funders and people working in philanthropy only.