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Google’s carbon emissions soar by 48% due to AI (www.climateaction.org)
submitted 4 months ago by 0x815 to c/technology@beehaw.org
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cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/461229

The leap in emissions is largely due to energy-guzzling data centers and supply chain emissions necessary to power artificial intelligence (AI) systems such as Google’s Gemini and OpenAI’s ChatGPT. The report estimated that in 2023, Google’s data centers alone account for up to 10% of global data center electricity consumption. Their data center electricity and water consumption both increased 17% between 2022 and 2023.

Google released 14.3 million metric tons of carbon dioxide just last year, 13% higher than the year before.

Climate scientists have shown concerns as Big Tech giants such as Google, Amazon and Microsoft continue to invest billons of dollars into AI.

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[–] bilb@lem.monster 16 points 4 months ago

And life has been transformed! Everything is wonderful now!

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 9 points 4 months ago

God forbid they use their money to just build their own green power plants. Then the shareholders might not get as much