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AI scams, billion-dollar compute bets, and the dirty secret of the AI boom Major tech companies are abandoning renewable energy for gas-powered datacenters as AI demand explodes—Amazon, SpaceX, and Anthropic are betting billions on compute capacity, but the environmental cost might be steeper than we thought. Plus: a sobering study reveals AI chatbots are better scammers than humans, complete with fake love stories and invented alibis to cover their tracks.