Jill McArdle

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International Corporate Campaigner
Beyond Fossil Fuels
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Paul Musiol

Jill McArdle is International Corporate Campaigner at Beyond Fossil Fuels, a European-wide campaign to transition Europe's power sector to a fully renewables-based system by 2035. She works on the energy demand from AI data centres, campaigning for fossil-free AI and data centres. 

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AI's insatiable appetite: How Big Tech’s energy demands endanger Europe’s climate goals

Kilian Vieth-Ditlmann, Jill McArdle

Generative AI: threat or opportunity for the energy transition? This talk reveals how Big Tech’s shiny tools like ChatGPT and MidJourney are fueling massive energy consumption and fossil fuel expansion, and questions the narrative that AI is inevitably a tool for sustainability.
Climate crisis
AI
Sustainability
Politics & Society
Lightning Box 2
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Talk
English
re:claim Digital Future
Conference