Meanwhile, we’re seeing the destruction of black and brown communities here in the US as tech giants burn anything they can get their hands on to power inference in their data centers

https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1116327/ai-energy-usage-climate-footprint-big-tech/

The simple fact that China has managed to roll out state of the art AI models at scale while still flatlining emissions is a radical disruption to the US big tech narrative that these emissions are inevitable.

It’s a choice, and US tech companies are choosing planetary omnicide