The title of the piece is “boil the oceans.” Is that way he means, that AI and its negative environmental concerns be damned? If so, he’s lost whatever good insight with which he had to start.

The term "boil the ocean" means trying to accomplish too much at once. In the corporate world, we're usually encouraged to commit to smaller, achievable goals. In this case, the author seems to be suggesting that companies need to take big, bold, risky moves. A phrase with better connotations would probably be "swing for the fences".