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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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[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 11 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I mean, yeah.

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

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

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

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

That's a hall mark of our civilisation/society, not our species. Humans have been around for hundreds of thousands of years, and the vast majority of cultures in that time have been relatively stable, with checks on excessive greed.

(see Graeber and Wengrow's The Dawn Of Everything for some good examples.)