Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt said we should let AI figure out how to decrease carbon emissions.Shahar Azran/Getty ImagesEx-Google CEO Eric Schmidt urged more AI development, even though it requires so much energy.AI models require enormous data centers that threaten goals to reduce carbon emissions.Schmidt said "we are never going to meet" the goals anyway, suggesting we let AI solve the problem.Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt says it's time for us to fully invest in AI infrastructure because climate goals are too lofty to reach anyway.The AI boom has spurred a wave of spending on data centers, which provide the computational power needed to train and run AI models.