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TODAY'S NUGGETS
🤷🏻♂️ He was just kidding. Billionaire environmentalist Bill Gates has changed his tune when it comes to the climate: In a new memo, the Microsoft co-founder throws doubt on theories of global warming and claims that rising temperatures won’t lead to humanity’s demise, chastising “doomsday” appraisals of climate change. Gates’ sudden flip-flop comes as Big Tech firms ramp up artificial intelligence expenditures and electricity-guzzling data centers (together, Microsoft and Google consumed more power than 100 countries last year).
