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Data centres owned and operated by Amazon Web Services in Ashburn, Va. The company's founder Jeff Bezos earlier this month predicted that massive power generating plants will be built in space within 20 years.

The annual UN-sponsored climate change conferences are chaotic circuses that disguise their essential pursuit: Minimize the use of hydrocarbons to make electricity.

About 45 per cent of carbon emissions come from power plants running on coal or natural gas, making them an easy target for the climate brigade. The campaign against their use sort of worked, at least in much of the Western world. In the European Union alone, coal emissions fell by more than 60 per cent in the past decade as wind and solar energy gained traction.

Then came artificial intelligence and its d

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