https://www.crikey.com.au/2026/10/22/unsw-artificial-intelligence-openai-chatgpt-energy-impact-environment/"For a while,...

https://www.crikey.com.au/2026/10/22/unsw-artificial-intelligence-openai-chatgpt-energy-impact-environment/"For a while, I had a running joke. Every time an organisation or person I loved announced they were pivoting to using AI, I would post about it like the loss of battlements in a war. “Margaret Atwood has fallen”. “ProPublica has fallen”. “DuckDuckGo has fallen”, etc. At some point I stopped because friends adopting AI became so common the joke stopped working.It has been crushing to see so many fall prey to the hype and hollow promise of generative AI, but one particularly consequential loss has been in higher education. It has been an ugly few years, with executives and higher-ups eagerly cramming generative AI down students’ throats despite the well-documented, serious effects of mandated cheating software. What interests me most is the combination of universities’ self-image as incubators and world-leading labs of climate action and innovation, paired with the obscene energy b...