‘Eat the rich, save the planet’: climate protesters call out big tech’s disconnect from reality
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Source: The Guardian TechnologySeptember 24, 2026
Summary
Climate activists protested outside major tech companies' offices during climate week in New York City, arguing that AI companies are disconnected from environmental concerns. The protests were sparked partly by an Anthropic employee's public warning that AI could pose existential risks, and targeted companies like OpenAI, Google, and Amazon, as well as a gas power plant being kept open to power AI datacenters (large facilities housing computer servers).
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Attack SophisticationModerate
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Original source: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/24/climate-protesters-ai
First tracked: September 24, 2026 at 02:01 PM
Classified by LLM (prompt v3) · confidence: 85%