New research finds that by making the fossil fuel industry more productive, AI could help increase carbon emissions by up to nearly 5 percent—vastly outpacing the impact of data centers.

Pesquisa estima que a expansão da produção fóssil com IA pode adicionar até 1,8 bilhão de toneladas de dióxido de carbono por ano

As US tech companies race to build the data centers fueling the AI boom, they are increasingly putting up their own power plants -- off the grid and running on gas -- to get…