{"id":142307,"date":"2026-02-21T01:58:32","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T01:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/?p=142307"},"modified":"2026-02-21T01:58:32","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T01:58:32","slug":"big-tech-accused-of-ai-greenwashing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/big-tech-accused-of-ai-greenwashing\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Tech Accused of AI \u2018Greenwashing\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"post-header post-header--conveyor\">\n<div class=\"post-header__text\">\n<header class=\"article-header\">\n<div class=\"post-subheader has-summary\">\n<div class=\"post-subheader__summary\" role=\"region\" aria-label=\"summary\">\n<div class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD\" data-testid=\"paragraph-0\">\n<div class=\"post-subheader has-summary\">\n<div class=\"post-subheader__summary\" role=\"region\" aria-label=\"summary\">\n<div class=\"post-subheader has-summary\">\n<div class=\"post-subheader__summary\" role=\"region\" aria-label=\"summary\">\n<div class=\"post-subheader has-summary\">\n<div class=\"post-subheader__summary\" role=\"region\" aria-label=\"summary\">\n<div class=\"post-subheader has-summary\">\n<div class=\"post-subheader__summary\" role=\"region\" aria-label=\"summary\">\n<p>The big tech industry\u2019s claims about the climate benefits of artificial intelligence (AI) are largely unproven and unsubstantiated, according to a new report from a coalition of climate advocacy and accountability groups.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ketanjoshi.co\/2026\/02\/17\/big-tech-greenwashing-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener external\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">report<\/a>\u00a0found that only 26 percent of the climate claims made by big tech companies cited published academic research, with 36 percent citing no evidence whatsoever.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"su-button-center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.desmog.com\/2026\/02\/17\/big-tech-accused-of-ai-greenwashing\/\" class=\"su-button su-button-style-default\" style=\"color:#FFFFFF;background-color:#68cf8a;border-color:#54a66f;border-radius:10px\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color:#FFFFFF;padding:8px 26px;font-size:20px;line-height:30px;border-color:#96deae;border-radius:10px;text-shadow:none\"><i class=\"sui sui-sign-out\" style=\"font-size:20px;color:#FFFFFF\"><\/i>  <small style=\"padding-bottom:8px;color:#FFFFFF\">Click here for full article at DeSmog<\/small><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The big tech industry\u2019s claims about the climate benefits of artificial intelligence (AI) are largely unproven and unsubstantiated, according to a new report from a coalition of climate advocacy and &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1549,"featured_media":142310,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[794,1737,55,5],"tags":[428,183,2831,2335],"class_list":["post-142307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-digital","category-environment","category-industry","category-news","tag-ai","tag-climate-change","tag-data-centres","tag-greenwashing"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1549"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}