“#Meta, #Google and #Microsoft have all baked [generative AI] deep into their systems,” Joshi says. “I see this all as very much part of the tactic of trying to embed these systems into society and instil dependency in a fashion similar to the growth of single-use plastics in the 1970s.”
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/mar/13/ai-datacentres-environmental-impacts
