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Google’s carbon emissions soar by 48% due to AI (www.climateaction.org)
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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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[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 130 points 7 months ago (10 children)

So, lets get this straight. Humans are going to die. Animals are going to die. Plants are going to die.

...........so that corporations can make a few easier dollars before this whole planet burns in flames?

Yes, corporationS. Plural. What? You think google is the only one using AI?

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I mean, yeah.

One of the hallmarks of our species is its insatiable, irrational greed.

[–] niartenyaw@midwest.social 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

and that's unfortunately only true because the greedy groups have destroyed all the non-greedy ones by slaughter or forced participation

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