Green AI or digital colonialism? The empire beneath the eco-friendly facadeFor years, the world has been sold a seductive narrative: artificial intelligence (AI) will be the great equaliser, lifting all nations into a new era of prosperity, efficiency, and environmental sustainability. Enter the age of “Green AI” and “Green Data Centres,” where powerful machines will no longer just crunch numbers but will do so with a conscience, running on renewable energy, reducing carbon footprints, and promising a future where AI and climate action go hand in hand. But scratch the surface of this narrative, and a far more cynical reality emerges — one where AI is not an apolitical force for good, but a tool of geopolitical domination, where the so-called “green” revolution is just a repackaging of old colonial logics in a cybernetic wrapper.