More Worried About Al's Environmental Impact Than Animal Agriculture? The Numbers Tell a Different Story
More Worried About Al's Environmental Impact Than Animal Agriculture? The Numbers Tell a Different Story
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If You Worry About AI’s Environmental Impact But Not Animal Agriculture, You Haven’t Done the Math
We're not talking nuances. We're talking orders of magnitude.
Data centers — the entire global fleet, AI included — account for roughly 0.6% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Animal agriculture accounts for somewhere between 16.5% and nearly 20%.
That’s not a marginal difference. It’s about a thirty-fold gap.