Asia’s AI Boom Has a Dirty Secret: The Coal That Powers It Asia's emergence as the world's premier tech hub has been touted as a triumph of innovation and progress, but beneath the surface lies a dirty secret: the region's insatiable appetite for coal.
As governments and corporations scramble to keep pace with the demands of artificial intelligence, they're turning to a fuel that's both cheap and abundant – at a steep environmental cost.
Asia sits atop nearly three fifths of the world's known coal reserves.