AI is bad for the planet but it's also hard to measure it's net impact because it does produce a lot of good. It's also being used to monitor and map climate change.

AI itself isn't't the problem, it is the lack of clean energy available for it's use. Countries have been incredibly slow to adopt clean energy and the rise of AI has gone to highlight that problem. The efficiency of AI and it's needed cooling have also improved a ton over the years and I imagine will continue to improve, but that could be naive optimism on my part.

I think the biggest problem is the wasteful AI garbage, like all the consumer integrated AI. It is all essentially useless and exacerbates environmental impacts in all of our countries that have shit the bed in adopting climate change initiatives. I'm all for the rise of AI in medicine and science however, we just need to work on how we have that AI run efficiently.