AI sweat: Chris Preist on data centre emissions - Rod McLaren: Words that work (opens in new tab)

12 June 2026 Notes from a AI seminar by Professor Chris Preist on 10 June 2026, part of a AI by ClimateAction.tech with ustwo. My thoughts in [square brackets] - any errors will be mine. Direct emissions: digital’s own footprint. Enabling: good and bad things the AI lets/makes happen. Systemic: induced larger social change. Digital tech has roughly same emissions as aviation. But because it is much more widely diffused through global population than aviation (~20% vs ~1% of pop), different em...