Big Tech’s Fossil Addiction
Published: Sep 23, 2025 07:40
Silicon Valley sells the future as clean, digital, and immaterial. The truth is darker. Every new AI server farm eats power like a steel mill, and the fuel is not wind or solar — it is gas. Trump called coal 'beautiful'. Musk calls natural gas 'transitional'. Amazon and Google build 'green' datacenters that in reality burn fossil fuel behind a corporate PR shield. This is not a clean transition. It is a fossil addiction dressed as innovation.
While islands sink and glaciers bleed, Big Tech lines up government subsidies for power plants that feed their machines. Nvidia invests billions into AI clusters that run on the same fossil foundations they pretend to transcend. The planet pays the price, not the shareholders. Truthloop names it plainly: Big Tech is not building sustainability. It is building empire’s fossil empire — one server rack at a time.