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Data Centers Are a Climate Enemy

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Data Centers Are a Climate Enemy

On this episode of Tech Won’t Save Us: Ketan Joshi on how data centers are a climate justice issue.

Cooling vent fans are seen on the roof of a Digital Realty data center in Ashburn, Virginia on November 12, 2025.

(Andrew Caballero-Reynolds / AFP via Getty Images)

Paris Marx is joined by Ketan Joshi to discuss how hyperscale data centers are fueling the consumption of more oil and gas, what that means for climate targets, and the insidious relationship between the tech and fossil fuel industries.

Ketan Joshi is a climate writer and data analyst based in Oslo working with climate and environmental groups.

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Paris Marx is a tech critic and host of the Tech Won’t Save Us podcast. He writes the Disconnect newsletter and is the author of Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation.

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