Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming the global economy, but its growing energy demand is creating new climate challenges that policymakers and tech companies are only beginning to confront.
As data centers scale and electricity consumption rises, carbon capture and removal technologies are increasingly being positioned as part of the solution.
But critics argue this approach risks delaying deeper structural changes in how digital infrastructure is built and powered. In this video, we examine the collision between AI growth and climate targets, explore the role carbon capture could play, and ask whether scaling these technologies is what it takes to successfully mitigate data center CO2 emissions.
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