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Crikey | Why big tech has always been obsessed with hiding its shame by Ketan Joshi AI generated summary, Read the full article for complete information. The article argues that big‑tech companies routinely obscure the true scale of their environmental impact, pointing to examples such as Amazon’s claim of 100 % renewable power while fighting mandatory emissions reporting, and using Canberra Data Centres (CDC) as a case study: its founder Greg Boorer boasts that Australia can build world‑class data centres and still meet net‑zero targets by tapping “substantial unused capacity” in the power system and claims CDC is already net‑zero, despite the broader reality that the industry is imposing massive new energy demand on suburban fringes and relying on vague promises of future technological fixes to downplay the issue. Read more: https://www.crikey.com.au/2026/05/04/data-centres-carbon-emissions-meta-apple-amazon-microsoft/ #Amazon #GregBoorer #carbonemissions #climatechange #datacentres

So, it now seems that McKinsey & Cambridge Econometrics analysis of the likely environmental impact of the build-out of AI-related data centres in the UK was off by around ten times; that is, new (independent) projections suggest (and now adopted by the Govt.) that the environmental impact (via carbon emissions) is likely to be TEN times what the consultancies predicted. (water usage predictions have also been raised) Funny that...I wonder who else McKinsey work for??? #AI #DataCentres h/t FT