Officials hugely underestimated impact of AI datacentres on UK carbon emissions

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UK's AI emissions underestimation enables climate harm through energy-intensive infrastructure | The revelation that UK officials drastically underestimated AI datacentre emissions represents a major failure in climate governance. This underestimation undermines SDG 13 (Climate Action) and Planetary Boundaries by allowing energy-intensive infrastructure to expand without proper mitigation, increasing long-term carbon lock-in.