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- Jensen Huang, Nvidia's CEO, said on The Ezra Klein Show that AI can help fight climate change — but only after inflicting 'an enormous amount of pain and suffering' first.
- NYT Tech's coverage of the same Ezra Klein Show episode headlines Huang's view that 'A.I. Alarmism Has Gone Too Far,' contrasting with the source's 'supervillain' framing of his climate remarks.
Why it matters: Huang's framing — that AI's climate payoff requires a painful energy transition — carries weight because Nvidia supplies the chips driving AI's surging power demand, and how its CEO publicly characterizes that tradeoff shapes the policy debate over data center buildouts and grid expansion.
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