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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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[-] pavnilschanda@lemmy.world 14 points 4 months ago

The AI hype (talk to your toaster!) will blow over, useful AI will remain and improve, this is just a hurdle along the way.

I hope so. AI spam causing too much internet noise to the point where we can't tell which one's true or not would be one big hurdle.

[-] admin@lemmy.my-box.dev 1 points 4 months ago

Who knows, maybe it'll teach people to be more skeptical of the things they read online, and actually look for the underlying sources.

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