Why AI carbon footprinting tools are prone to misleading results

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By Jim GilesSep 3, 2026, 6:00 am86 pts
Multiple services now offer to take a list of the materials that go into a product — or even just a description of it — and estimate the emissions generated by its manufacture. The automation of the normally tedious process of creating product carbon footprints (PCFs) is one of the more tantalizing…

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