Every month, millions of people automatically channel pension contributions into index funds and institutional portfolios that keep financing the very AI infrastructure driving exploding energy demand and rising emissions. Amazon.com Inc. and Alphabet Inc.'s Google have unleashed a devastating surge in greenhouse gas emissions in 2025, exposing a terrifying reality: the world's most powerful tech companies are sacrificing the planet on the altar of artificial intelligence, pumping massive quantities of fossil fuel pollution into an already dying atmosphere. Amazon's emissions exploded by 16% from 2024, the company reluctantly admitted in a sustainability report released Wednesday. The tech behemoth spewed approximately 81 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent into the atmosphere last year'the equivalent pollution of 19 million gas-guzzling cars choking our roads. Google's 'ambition-based' emissions'a definition conveniently designed to hide portions of its supply...
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