{"id":846,"date":"2026-01-03T09:33:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T09:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/just-an-unbelievable-amount-of-pollution-how-big-a-threat-is-ai-to-the-climate\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T09:33:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T09:33:14","slug":"just-an-unbelievable-amount-of-pollution-how-big-a-threat-is-ai-to-the-climate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/just-an-unbelievable-amount-of-pollution-how-big-a-threat-is-ai-to-the-climate\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Just an unbelievable amount of pollution\u2019: how big a threat is AI to the climate?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defenders say AI can do good to fight the climate crisis. But spiralling energy and water costs leave experts worriedDuring a golden sunset in Memphis in May, Sharon Wilson pointed a thermal imaging camera at Elon Musk\u2019s flagship datacentre to reveal a planetary threat her eyes could not. Free from pollution controls, the gas-fired turbines that power the world\u2019s biggest AI supercomputer were pumping invisible fumes into the Tennessee sky.\u201cIt was jaw-dropping,\u201d said Wilson, a former oil and gas worker from Texas who has documented methane releases for more than a decade and estimates xAI\u2019s Colossus datacentre was spewing more of the planet-heating gas than a large power plant. \u201cJust an unbelievable amount of pollution.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defenders say AI can do good to fight the climate crisis. But spiralling energy and water costs leave experts worriedDuring<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}