I have been hearing a lot about "AI will help us create greener energy" with the promise to sort of close the loop (linking here one from MIT I came across a while ago: https://news.mit.edu/2025/how-ai-can-help-achieve-clean-ener...)

Wondering: 1) How? 2) Is the balance gonna be actually positive or will manufacturers and customers pay the bill for it as you say?

There's lots of claims made by that MIT piece, but I don't see any evidence of it (i.e. no links in the article and no real world impact either).

I suspect that a lot of people just shoehorn in AI into whatever project they are doing because it will get them a higher profile and makes them sound like they're on the forefront of technology. It's like washing machines being sold with AI technology - maybe they slightly adjust the programmes for the weight of the load, but that could be done easily without AI.