AI was the elephant in every room at Climate Week NYC. Behind the promises of green innovation looms a ‘brown boost’ in data centres, gas and power.

This week, Elliot reports from New York as he and Matt unpack the real, immediate and enormous energy demand behind the race towards AGI, and the religious promise that once we reach the Promised Land, AI will save us.

Where are the examples? What are the strategies? And can AI companies become good corporate citizens without locking in another generation of gas and coal?

And what hope do we have when even the climate tech VCs are all in on AI and fresh out of decarb?

Find out in this week's episode of Worth Knowing.

Chapters ➡

00:00 AI is the elephant in every room
00:15 A typhoon rolls through New York
02:32 Climate Week becomes AI and Data Centre Week
06:35 The missing global guardrails
07:55 AI’s brown boost
09:09 Nvidia says: trust us, we're surgeons
12:20 Racing towards the Promised Land
16:48 Decentralised energy and good corporate citizens
20:47 Renewables are on a tear
22:26 Patagonia, Twiggy Forrest and Sylvia Earle
27:02 Active hope and Gross Domestic Regeneration
29:41 Why COP31 will not save us
31:58 The war is not yet over

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