Universities around the world are rapidly adopting energy-intensive fossil-fuelled genAI software, and basically none of them are disclosing the climate costs - my new piece for Crikey, here:
[www.crikey.com.au/2026/10/22/u...](https://www.crikey.com.au/2026/10/22/unsw-artificial-intelligence-openai-chatgpt-energy-impact-environment/ )
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