“Getting energy permitted is like a very heavily regulated government function,” Zuckerberg said in an interview this month. “You’re talking about many years of lead time. So if we wanted to stand up some massive facility, to power that—I think that’s a very long-term project.”

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Despite the looming energy crisis AI aggravates, tech giants show no signs of slowing down development. Some justify the push with vague promises of AGI, or artificial general intelligence, which doesn’t yet exist. Even if it did, though, it’s unclear how helpful it could be in mitigating climate change's effects.