Whilst 2025 was characterised by a rush for ever-greater computing power, 2026 now requires AI stakeholders to reconcile this growth with their climate commitments.
Following a year in 2025 dominated by a ‘growth at any cost’ approach to computing power, 2026 is forcing the major players in AI to adopt a new mantra: “responsible growth”, which involves balancing ever-increasing energy demands with commitments to carbon neutrality and rising energy costs.
AI thus finds itself both among the world’s fastest-growing sources of new energy demand and among the most powerful tools ever developed for understanding and managing climate challenges — a dual role that now shapes the climate roadmaps of major technology groups for 2026.
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