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Google’s carbon emissions soar by 48% due to AI (www.climateaction.org)

submitted 4 months ago by 0x815@feddit.org to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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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[–] _sideffect@lemmy.world 75 points 4 months ago (8 children)

But by all means, everyone don't use plastic straws! You're killing the environment!

[–] androogee@midwest.social 27 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yeah dawg we can't possibly do two things that are good for the environment, we have to pick one. Everyone knows that.

[–] Holzkohlen@feddit.de 17 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I pick guillotining the rich as my one thing

[–] naught101@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

What about choking them with plastic straws?

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