Ketan Joshi

Freelance climate and energy analyst in Oslo, writing on Europe, the US and Australia; worked in the Australian renewables industry before that.

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- NVIDIA’S AI Climate hoax – report 16 Sept 2026 What does the real climate footprint of the biggest company on the planet look like? It’s a good question, but here’s a better one: why don’t we already know the answer? In a new report, we find NVIDIA, a beneficiary of…
- How Australia’s data centre lobby is winning its fight to freely pollute 14 Aug 2026 Data centre greenwashing is getting worse, alongside the tech industry's hunger for fossil fuels. Why help them?
- Google’s exponential path to climate-wrecking digital bloat 1 Jul 2026 Google's latest report reveals a completely unprecedented rise in energy consumption - more than any of us expected. Generative AI is a climate carbon bomb.
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How to breathe air when we’re drowning in big tech’s slop 21 Jun 2026 A viral fabricated Bezos quote reveals how big tech is engineering widespread reality collapse. We need to stop them.
Why Anthropic’s ultra-dirty deal shouldn’t surprise you at all 13 May 2026 Perfect little Anthropic did the dirty with Elon Musk's ultra-filthy pollution bomb fossil fuelled data centre. I am here to tell you why this is not surprising at all.
The exact wrong lesson to learn from data centre infrasound fears 1 May 2026 Data centre infrasound fears are a thing now. So here's a deep dive into my history with wind turbine syndrome, and what it means for the wild data centre frenzy
Australia’s data centre growth proportion now matches the US 30 Apr 2026 Australia's data center lobby insists they're nothing like America. Except, new data released this weeks shows that yeah, they kinda are.
Data sharing – NGERs Australia 16 Apr 2026 A new dataset compiling Australian corporate and electricity emissions data
Submission to Aus gas tax inquiry: lessons to learn about Norway’s taxing of fossil fuels 14 Apr 2026 Norway is a great example of how to tax the fossil fuel industry, and a terrible example of how to fail to wind it down
The shiny new disinfo tactic being rolled out by fossil defenders 20 Mar 2026 Watch a video version of this blog post, here or below 🙂 Not quite there yet, but soon it’ll be one year since a major blackout impacted Spain and Portugal – one of the biggest blackouts to ever hit Europe since the cr…
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- The climate impact from NVIDIA's AI products in 2025 is comparable to that of a major state-owned coal company.
  
  we produced our own conservative estimate, finding that the climate impact from 2025's use of NVIDIA'S AI products is on par with the state-owned Russian Coal company.
  
  NVIDIA’S AI Climate hoax – report Said 16 Sept 2026
  
  Full record — everyone who holds this →
  
  Russia
- Claims that AI will be a net benefit for the climate lack strong supporting evidence.
  
  we explore and contest all these claims, which we contend are not supported by strong evidence.
  
  NVIDIA’S AI Climate hoax – report Said 16 Sept 2026
  
  Full record — everyone who holds this →
- Delaying the phase-out of coal and gas power plants causes far more deaths than phasing them out quickly.
  
  If we don't stop using these power stations ASAP, the number of people killed by them will be far higher than if we phase them out quickly.
  
  How Australia’s data centre lobby is winning its fight to freely pollute Said 14 Aug 2026
  
  Full record — everyone who holds this →
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Greenwashing embedded into legislation causes real deaths.

Greenwashing, particularly when embedded deep into legislation, kills people.

How Australia’s data centre lobby is winning its fight to freely pollute Said 14 Aug 2026

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Renewable energy offset schemes share the same fundamental flaw as carbon offsets in general.

This renewable energy offsetting suffers from the same fundamental problem as all offsets.

How Australia’s data centre lobby is winning its fight to freely pollute Said 14 Aug 2026

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energy

Efficiency gains in a growth-driven industry tend to be absorbed into even greater expansion rather than reducing net resource use.

It is actually pretty likely that it was Google's efficiency actions that enabled their total energy consumption to increase.

Google’s exponential path to climate-wrecking digital bloat Said 1 Jul 2026

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Google energy

Generative AI's climate harm comes mainly from wasteful system design and forced-on features, not from the computational cost of individual queries.

What is happening is that GenAI's climate harm comes from the system design, such as Google's AI overview triggering constantly whether users want it or not, in addition to significantly worse digital bloat tools dominating overconsumption.

Google’s exponential path to climate-wrecking digital bloat Said 1 Jul 2026

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Google

Google is knowingly choosing the more climate-damaging path while using narrow efficiency metrics to obscure that choice.

Both hide the fact the company is simply choosing the climate-wrecking road, consciously.

Google’s exponential path to climate-wrecking digital bloat Said 1 Jul 2026

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Google

Genuinely valuing truth, honesty and climate action logically entails opposing generative AI.

Being pro-correctness, anti-theft and anti-fossil fuels automatically places you in an aggressively anti-generative-AI position.

How to breathe air when we’re drowning in big tech’s slop Said 21 Jun 2026

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energy

The erosion of trust and shared reality directly benefits high-polluting industries.

High-polluting industries benefit directly and obviously from the collapse of trust, shared reality and information quality.

How to breathe air when we’re drowning in big tech’s slop Said 21 Jun 2026

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Generative AI systems have no built-in drive toward truth and accuracy, unlike people or institutions.

Generative AI has no internal, designed momentum towards truth and accuracy (beyond the absurdly diminishing returns of energy-hungry multi-layered LLMs), but a person or an institution can (and should).

How to breathe air when we’re drowning in big tech’s slop Said 21 Jun 2026

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LLMs energy

Panic and impatience in the industry, not the technology itself, are what drive the worst environmental harms of the data centre boom.

The fundamental drivers of this change are panic and impatience, and that is what is behind the worst impacts of data centre growth, including a material risk to decarbonisation and climate action.

Why Anthropic’s ultra-dirty deal shouldn’t surprise you at all Said 13 May 2026

Full record — everyone who holds this →

data centers

The environmental harm caused by data centres comes from how the industry chooses to build them, not from anything inherent to computing infrastructure.

there is nothing fundamentally inherent to the concept of a building full of computers that causes choking air pollution, water impacts and climate change.

Why Anthropic’s ultra-dirty deal shouldn’t surprise you at all Said 13 May 2026

Full record — everyone who holds this →

data centers

Anthropic does not meaningfully prioritize climate, environmental, or air pollution concerns despite its public image.

It was already clear a while ago that Anthropic mostly do not care about climate, environment or air pollution in any material way, even if they care a little bit more about bad PR than Elon Musk does.

Why Anthropic’s ultra-dirty deal shouldn’t surprise you at all Said 13 May 2026

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Anthropic

AI data centres cannot be meaningfully reformed without a fundamental change of course and ideology in the industry.

Reformation is impossible for AI data centres, at least, not without a massive change of course and an ideological reckoning.

The exact wrong lesson to learn from data centre infrasound fears Said 1 May 2026

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data centers

Data centres are being built in such number, size and speed that the industry cannot realistically be reformed.

There are simply too many data centres being built, and they're too big, being built too fast.

The exact wrong lesson to learn from data centre infrasound fears Said 1 May 2026

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data centers

Preventing the underlying causes of public health fears works better than debunking them after they take hold.

The only solution is preventing the disease, not treating the symptoms.

The exact wrong lesson to learn from data centre infrasound fears Said 1 May 2026

Full record — everyone who holds this →

If Australia's renewable rollout weakens, coal and gas plants will run longer and generate more, well past their planned shutdown dates.

In the face of weakened renewable roll-out in Australia, the most likely outcome is simply that coal and gas just generate more, and for many more years past their shut down date.

Australia’s data centre growth proportion now matches the US Said 30 Apr 2026

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Data centres will become the majority driver of electricity demand growth in Australia's National Electricity Market.

Even if a small fraction of this pipeline ends up operational, data centres will drive far more than 50% of demand growth in the NEM.

Australia’s data centre growth proportion now matches the US Said 30 Apr 2026

Full record — everyone who holds this →

data centers energy
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16 September

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From one piece NVIDIA’S AI Climate hoax – report 2 beliefs · ketanjoshi.co

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Claims that AI will be a net benefit for the climate lack strong supporting evidence.

Their words

we explore and contest all these claims, which we contend are not supported by strong evidence.

NVIDIA’S AI Climate hoax – reportketanjoshi.co
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The climate impact from NVIDIA's AI products in 2025 is comparable to that of a major state-owned coal company.

Russia

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we produced our own conservative estimate, finding that the climate impact from 2025's use of NVIDIA'S AI products is on par with the state-owned Russian Coal company.

NVIDIA’S AI Climate hoax – reportketanjoshi.co

14 August

Ketan JoshiKorrents 14 Aug

From one piece How Australia’s data centre lobby is winning its fight to freely pollute 3 beliefs · ketanjoshi.co

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Renewable energy offset schemes share the same fundamental flaw as carbon offsets in general.

energy

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This renewable energy offsetting suffers from the same fundamental problem as all offsets.

ketanjoshi.co
korrents.com
Greenwashing embedded into legislation causes real deaths.

Their words

Greenwashing, particularly when embedded deep into legislation, kills people.

ketanjoshi.co
korrents.com
Delaying the phase-out of coal and gas power plants causes far more deaths than phasing them out quickly.

Their words

If we don't stop using these power stations ASAP, the number of people killed by them will be far higher than if we phase them out quickly.

ketanjoshi.co

1 July

Ketan JoshiKorrents 1 Jul

From one piece Google’s exponential path to climate-wrecking digital bloat 3 beliefs · ketanjoshi.co

korrents.com
Google is knowingly choosing the more climate-damaging path while using narrow efficiency metrics to obscure that choice.

Google

Their words

Both hide the fact the company is simply choosing the climate-wrecking road, consciously.

ketanjoshi.co
korrents.com
Generative AI's climate harm comes mainly from wasteful system design and forced-on features, not from the computational cost of individual queries.

Google

Their words

What is happening is that GenAI's climate harm comes from the system design, such as Google's AI overview triggering constantly whether users want it or not, in addition to significantly worse digital bloat tools dominating overconsumption.

ketanjoshi.co
korrents.com
Efficiency gains in a growth-driven industry tend to be absorbed into even greater expansion rather than reducing net resource use.

Googleenergy

Their words

It is actually pretty likely that it was Google's efficiency actions that enabled their total energy consumption to increase.

ketanjoshi.co

21 June

Ketan JoshiKorrents 21 Jun

From one piece How to breathe air when we’re drowning in big tech’s slop 3 beliefs · ketanjoshi.co

korrents.com
Generative AI systems have no built-in drive toward truth and accuracy, unlike people or institutions.

LLMsenergy

Their words

Generative AI has no internal, designed momentum towards truth and accuracy (beyond the absurdly diminishing returns of energy-hungry multi-layered LLMs), but a person or an institution can (and should).

ketanjoshi.co
korrents.com
The erosion of trust and shared reality directly benefits high-polluting industries.

Their words

High-polluting industries benefit directly and obviously from the collapse of trust, shared reality and information quality.

ketanjoshi.co
korrents.com
Genuinely valuing truth, honesty and climate action logically entails opposing generative AI.

energy

Their words

Being pro-correctness, anti-theft and anti-fossil fuels automatically places you in an aggressively anti-generative-AI position.

ketanjoshi.co

13 May

Ketan JoshiKorrents 13 May

From one piece Why Anthropic’s ultra-dirty deal shouldn’t surprise you at all 3 beliefs · ketanjoshi.co

korrents.com
Anthropic does not meaningfully prioritize climate, environmental, or air pollution concerns despite its public image.

Anthropic

Their words

It was already clear a while ago that Anthropic mostly do not care about climate, environment or air pollution in any material way, even if they care a little bit more about bad PR than Elon Musk does.

ketanjoshi.co
korrents.com
The environmental harm caused by data centres comes from how the industry chooses to build them, not from anything inherent to computing infrastructure.

data centers

Their words

there is nothing fundamentally inherent to the concept of a building full of computers that causes choking air pollution, water impacts and climate change.

ketanjoshi.co
korrents.com
Panic and impatience in the industry, not the technology itself, are what drive the worst environmental harms of the data centre boom.

data centers

Their words

The fundamental drivers of this change are panic and impatience, and that is what is behind the worst impacts of data centre growth, including a material risk to decarbonisation and climate action.

ketanjoshi.co

1 May

Ketan JoshiKorrents 1 May

From one piece The exact wrong lesson to learn from data centre infrasound fears 3 beliefs · ketanjoshi.co

korrents.com
Preventing the underlying causes of public health fears works better than debunking them after they take hold.

Their words

The only solution is preventing the disease, not treating the symptoms.

ketanjoshi.co
korrents.com
Data centres are being built in such number, size and speed that the industry cannot realistically be reformed.

data centers

Their words

There are simply too many data centres being built, and they're too big, being built too fast.

ketanjoshi.co
korrents.com
AI data centres cannot be meaningfully reformed without a fundamental change of course and ideology in the industry.

data centers

Their words

Reformation is impossible for AI data centres, at least, not without a massive change of course and an ideological reckoning.

ketanjoshi.co

30 April

Ketan JoshiKorrents 30 Apr

From one piece Australia’s data centre growth proportion now matches the US 2 beliefs · ketanjoshi.co

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Data centres will become the majority driver of electricity demand growth in Australia's National Electricity Market.

data centersenergy

Their words

Even if a small fraction of this pipeline ends up operational, data centres will drive far more than 50% of demand growth in the NEM.

ketanjoshi.co
korrents.com
If Australia's renewable rollout weakens, coal and gas plants will run longer and generate more, well past their planned shutdown dates.

Their words

In the face of weakened renewable roll-out in Australia, the most likely outcome is simply that coal and gas just generate more, and for many more years past their shut down date.

ketanjoshi.co

16 April

Ketan JoshiBlog 16 Apr

Data sharing – NGERs Australia
energyRelated

14 April

Ketan JoshiBlog 14 Apr

Submission to Aus gas tax inquiry: lessons to learn about Norway’s taxing of fossil fuels
energyRelated

20 March

Ketan JoshiBlog 20 Mar

The shiny new disinfo tactic being rolled out by fossil defenders
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