COP30 kicks off this week, and the political project of AI is dangerously diverting attention and funding from much needed climate action and worsening ecosystems and community well-being everywhere.
At this COP, we want to give a clear NO. AI is not a climate solution. The answer is not AI. Even more importantly, we want to give a clear YES.
- Read the solidarity statement in English and Portuguese
- How to sign
The indigenous-led campaign The Answer Is Us shares clear demands for a more just and life-affirming future: land rights, zero deforestation, no fossil fuels, no mining, protecting defenders and ways of life, direct access to climate finance and real participation.
In particular, we’d like to quote the section on fossil fuels, which is very aligned with our mission for data centers to phase out fossil fuels—fast, fairly and forever:
We demand transparency and accountability for emissions from data centers and the AI supply chain, including their impacts on communities, land, water, and biodiversity, and we support calls to limit the energy demand and the construction of new data centers. The expansion of AI is driving fossil fuel use directly through gas-powered data centers and indirectly by pushing overall electricity demand beyond existing and planned renewable capacity.
Meanwhile data centers are sweeping up renewables needed by other sectors to decarbonize. This pressure undermines climate goals and drains resources from critical public sectors, and in the Global South it deepens extractive patterns of mineral extraction and large-scale energy projects that often bypass local governance and environmental oversight. Data centers must only be powered by new and additional renewable energy, and no fossil fuels should be burned at any point in the entire tech supply chain.
We warmly invite you to support the campaign and to sign the statement of solidarity to reaffirm the core of demands from The Answer is Us and to underscore how they intersect with centralized tech power and extractive practices in AI and beyond.
Acknowledgments
Thanks to our co-authors Laboratório de Políticas Públicas e Internet, Instituto de Defesa de Consumidores, Coding Rights, and Green Screen Coalition. And thank you to COIAB (Coordination of Indigenous Organizations of the Brazilian Amazon) for the clarity of your vision and welcoming leadership in this campaign.
