'Climate change is just an engineering problem' — and AI will beat us at it 1000x
djcows · x · 2026-11-07
A provocative post argues climate change is fundamentally an environmental engineering problem, and AI will vastly outperform humans at it — "like 1000x." It also dryly quotes the circular take that "the solution to climate change is building more datacenters," poking at the tension between compute expansion and sustainability.
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