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Episode: As AI booms, Google’s having a hard time slashing its emissions
Description: Three years ago, Google set an ambitious plan to address climate change by going “net zero,” meaning it would release no more climate-changing gasses into the air than it removes, by 2030.
But a report from the company on July 2 shows it is nowhere near meeting those goals. Rather than declining, its emissions grew 13% in 2023 over the year before. Compared to its baseline year of 2019, emissions have soared 48%.
Google cited artificial intelligence and the demand it puts on data centers, which require massive amounts of electricity, for last year’s growth.
Some experts say the rapidly expanding data centers needed to power...