India, Sept. 15 -- Have you heard of the cocktail 'Corpse Reviver'? As irony would have it, it is a sort of alcoholic elixir that is meant to cure a hangover after a good party-night dose of alcohol in the first place. Something that comes to the mind first when we hear of climate-tech firms and innovations. It is well-known and debated by now that AI is capable of bringing in a new level of environmental headache/question as the world embraces more and more data centre-build-outs, infrastructure stressing water supplies, erosion of control of local community over land and energy, facilities putting a burden on energy grids and chip-factories causing environmental issues.

It cannot be a co-incidence that Greenpeace East Asia's October 20...