The Tribune News reported that Google’s climate-changing emissions have risen by up to 48 percent in the recent five years.
“Regardless of its aim of approaching net-zero emissions, Google is pressurizing out more greenhouse gas than before as it enhances data centers required to promote artificial intelligence,” the company claimed.
“Google’s climate-changing emissions have risen up to 48 percent in the recent five years,” according to an annual environmental report released on Tuesday.
“Total greenhouse gas emissions in 2023 were 13 percent riser than the recent year, basically propelled by rising data center energy usage and its supply chain,” the report enlisted.
“Despite the progress we’re making, we face significant challenges that we’re actively working through,” chief sustainability officer Kate Brandt and senior vice president Benedict Gomes claimed in the report.
“As we further integrate AI into our products, reducing emissions may be challenging due to increasing energy demands from the greater intensity of AI computing, and the emissions associated with the expected increases in our technical infrastructure investment.”
Google is not the only company dealing with the problems of feeding power-hungry AI data centers while attempting to restrict the formation of climate-changing greenhouse gases.
In its previous sustainability report, Microsoft claimed that “its greenhouse gas emissions last year were up 29 percent from 2020 as it continues to invest in the infrastructure needed to advance new technologies.”
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Meanwhile, Google and Microsoft decided to be carbon neutral as the decade ended. Microsoft has a calculated proposal of being carbon-negative, considering removing climate-harming gas from the air by 2050.
Amazon, an AI applicant with its AWS cloud computing division, has claimed it proposes to be carbon neutral by 2040.
Google’s report expressed, “A sustainable future requires systems-level change, strong government policies, and new technologies.”
“We’re committed to collaboration and playing our part every step of the way.”
Published in Tribune News
