The fossil fuel industry funds & promotes AI data centers, cryptocurrency, and other frauds & scams to create new dependencies on fossil fuels.
The malign influence campaigns about "being left behind", "inevitability" & "cannot be stopped" are common tropes in marketing campaigns for wasteful energy use.
We are in the midst of an energy transition that Big Oil is desperate to halt.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/11/ai-will-do-more-to-boost-fossil-fuel-production-than-green-energy
https://www.nature.com/articles/s44168-026-00411-0
https://www.wsj.com/business/energy-oil/ais-biggest-energy-impact-might-be-in-the-oil-patch-not-the-data-center-2b901e17
Nicole Parsons
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