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It highlights existing partial bans in France and efforts in 10 countries, including Australia, Canada, Ireland, and South Africa, as well as over 50 cities. The text compares the fossil fuel industry to the tobacco industry, suggesting that similar regulatory tools are needed to protect public health and enable climate action. 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It highlights a lack of transparency in corporate emissions reporting, where 'market-based' accounting masks actual grid impacts, and warns that 'moonshot' technology promises like nuclear fusion may act as mitigation deterrence. Specific examples include data centre growth in Ireland and Malaysia, and the rising emissions profiles of companies like Microsoft and Google.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"caad-000053#summary","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},"key_insights":[{"text":"Projections for power demand from machine learning vary widely due to different assumptions about training and usage. The IEA projects dedicated machine learning power demand will be 10x greater in 2026 than in 2023, while a Goldman Sachs report suggests data centres could grow from 1-2% to 3-4% of global power demand, and up to 8% of US power demand.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"caad-000053#insight-1","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The growth of data centres is actively competing with other electrification needs and may lead to increased fossil fuel reliance. In Ireland, all new clean energy in 2023 served new data centre growth, leaving none for other industries, and 20 recent requests from data centres were for direct connections to the fossil gas grid.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"caad-000053#insight-2","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Large tech companies are using 'market-based' accounting to report lower emissions than their actual grid usage suggests. This method relies on renewable energy certificates (RECs) or power purchase agreements (PPAs) that may not incentivise new renewable energy or match the time and location of actual power consumption.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"caad-000053#insight-3","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Major technology firms are seeing their climate targets undermined by AI growth. Microsoft's president admitted its carbon ambitions have shifted because \"the moon has moved\" due to machine learning investments, and Google's reports show a rise in power consumption and a shift toward carbon removal investments rather than absolute reductions.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"caad-000053#insight-4","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The document identifies a risk of 'mitigation deterrence,' where improbable 'moonshot' technologies like nuclear fusion or carbon capture are promoted as solutions, potentially deterring investment in feasible renewable energy. 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It finds that no existing EU policy sufficiently mitigates the environmental and social impacts of the sector, and that financial frameworks may channel over €37 billion into projects without robust sustainability checks. 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