Yes, obviously AI is emitting way too much. It shouldn’t even be producing 0.2% of global emissions, let alone 2%. My main grievance is that no one ever talks about improving industrial and agricultural processes even though they produce around 29% of emissions and 20% of emissions respectively.
extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence
This is common knowledge by now, see for instance.
first, this relies on poore nemecek 2018, which used poor methodology, so you shouldn’t believe the study you cited.
but beyond that, much of that farmland is grazing land. that’s not 80% of agriculture, it’s 80% of agricultural land.