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AI’s massive appetite for energy will make or break climate-change goals

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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaking at a panel. (Credit: Jason Alden—Bloomberg/Getty Images)

To the energy industry, AI represents an uncertain sea change: an innovation that could either pave the way for a cleaner, greener grid or kneecap decades of environmental progress.

“What the climate and energy sector is facing with AI is not unlike what we're facing across the board with AI. It's extremely complicated, and it's just a question of, ‘Will the benefits outweigh the harms?’” Austin Whitman, CEO of nonprofit The Climate Change Project, told Fortune.

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