Author name: Rei Takver

In the wildest dreams of tech billionaires, humans colonize the solar system on giant space stations, dodge mortality by uploading their brains into computers, and solve climate change in a single swoop of god-like AI-generated genius. It’s a hubris that has led Big Tech companies, which until recently were seen as corporate climate leaders with ambitious clean […]

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Tech giant Amazon, which has for years portrayed itself as a global corporate climate leader, sponsored an AI energy summit featuring prominent climate deniers, DeSmog can reveal. The C3 Energy Summit on “American Leadership in Energy Innovation,” which took place in Washington, D.C., this week, featured sponsors and speakers from across the world of oil and gas, […]

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Multinational consulting firm KPMG has been accused of using underhand methods to gain access to this year’s COP30 climate summit. Critics allege that the firm has been using seemingly unaffiliated advocacy groups to gain entry to the flagship conference in Belém, Brazil, with senior staff failing to disclose their affiliation to KPMG. KPMG, which has […]

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Jason Huang, the CEO of supercomputer chip-maker Nvidia, has for years claimed that his company’s artificial intelligence products, as some of the most advanced scientific tools in history, will help the world solve climate change, warning last year that “climate disasters are now normal.”   Yet Huang is now loudly cozying up to U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright, even […]

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As world leaders prepared to descend on the small city of Belém in the Brazilian Amazon for the COP30 climate summit, artificial intelligence (AI) chip-manufacturer Nvidia was instead peddling its energy-guzzling AI tools to Brazilian oil and gas companies, DeSmog can reveal. During the Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) in Rio de Janeiro last week, a […]

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When U.S. President Donald Trump landed for what he called the “exquisite honour” of an unprecedented second state visit to the UK this September, he brought along a retinue of his favourite Silicon Valley tech bosses for dinner with King Charles. Among the guests seated in the gold-flecked banquet hall of Windsor Castle: Jensen Huang, CEO […]

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As artificial intelligence company OpenAI plans its rapid construction of behemoth power-guzzling data centers to fuel the AI boom, it has hired a new energy chief – an official from the first Trump administration who is a dedicated champion of natural gas. John McCarrick, the company’s new head of Global Energy Policy, was a senior energy […]

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Blackstone, a U.S. private equity firm run by a Trump-donating billionaire, is building a gargantuan £10 billion AI-ready data centre in the UK with a fleet of backup diesel generators so big that it could produce enough electricity to power three million UK homes. The “hyperscaler” supercomputer campus in Blyth, Northumberland – a crown jewel of the […]

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Labour’s new data access law would allow the UK government to replicate an Elon Musk-style DOGE data-grab, experts and campaigners have warned. They believe the new law is “ripe for abuse” and could be weaponised by a future Reform UK administration to further its anti-climate, anti-asylum, anti-government agenda. The Data (Use and Access) Act, which […]

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Councillors in West Northamptonshire last night slammed Reform UK’s plan to access council data as part of a drive that it claims is intended to reduce local “fraud and waste”. In a key test of Reform’s battle to access data from councils, West Northamptonshire became the first to welcome unnamed and unpaid “experts” from the party’s […]

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Reform UK leader and figurehead Nigel Farage hasn’t been alone in basking in the media spotlight of late. Farage has been accompanied by his party chair, Zia Yusuf, a multi-millionaire tech entrepreneur who has helped to orchestrate Reform’s explosive rise. Yusuf has overseen the party’s growth to over 200,000 members and 400 regional branches since […]

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