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Google blames AI as its emissions grow instead of heading to net zero (www.aljazeera.com)

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The company has made one of industry’s most significant climate commitments and has been seen as a leader.

Rather than declining, its emissions grew 13 percent in 2023 over the year before. Compared with its baseline year of 2019, emissions have soared 48 percent.

Google cited artificial intelligence and the demand it puts on data centres, which require massive amounts of electricity, for last year’s growth.

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[–] landlords_morghulis@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 3 months ago

I love the idea that incinerating the planet to build LLMs will yield a magic answer to fixing an incinerated planet... I'm also going to venture the "answer" will be pretty obvious and the oligarchy won't like it anyway.