{"id":15015,"date":"2024-07-02T20:38:03","date_gmt":"2024-07-02T18:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/02\/googles-emissions-climb-nearly-50-in-five-years-due-to-ai-energy-demand\/"},"modified":"2024-07-02T20:38:03","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T18:38:03","slug":"googles-emissions-climb-nearly-50-in-five-years-due-to-ai-energy-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/02\/googles-emissions-climb-nearly-50-in-five-years-due-to-ai-energy-demand\/","title":{"rendered":"Google\u2019s emissions climb nearly 50% in five years due to AI energy demand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tech giant\u2019s goal of reducing climate footprint at risk as it grows increasingly reliant on energy-hungry data centres<\/p>\n<p>Google\u2019s goal of reducing its climate footprint is in jeopardy as it relies on more and more energy-hungry data centres to power its new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/artificialintelligenceai\">artificial intelligence<\/a> products. The tech giant revealed Tuesday that its greenhouse gas emissions have climbed 48% over the past five years.<\/p>\n<p>Google said electricity consumption by data centres and supply chain emissions were the primary cause of the increase. It also revealed in its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gstatic.com\/gumdrop\/sustainability\/google-2024-environmental-report.pdf\">annual environmental report<\/a> that its emissions had risen by 13% year-on-year.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/article\/2024\/jul\/02\/google-ai-emissions\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/fa0fec714be6f90f2a608931e99bf2cd93dd91d4\/0_0_1999_1199\/master\/1999.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=00decac4769c76f2bfd3d52fb85d87a3\" title=\"Google\u2019s emissions climb nearly 50% in five years due to AI energy demand\" \/>Tech giant\u2019s goal of reducing climate footprint at risk as it grows increasingly reliant on energy-hungry data centres<br \/>\nGoogle\u2019s goal of reducing its climate footprint is in jeopardy as it relies on more and more energy-hungry data centres to power its new artificial intelligence products. The tech giant revealed Tuesday that its greenhouse gas emissions have climbed 48% over the past five years.<br \/>\nGoogle said electricity consumption by data centres and supply chain emissions were the primary cause of the increase. It also revealed in its annual environmental report that its emissions had risen by 13% year-on-year. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tech giant\u2019s goal of reducing climate footprint at risk as it grows increasingly reliant on energy-hungry data centres Google\u2019s goal of reducing its climate footprint is in jeopardy as it relies on more and more energy-hungry data centres to power its new artificial intelligence products. The tech giant revealed Tuesday that its greenhouse gas emissions &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/02\/googles-emissions-climb-nearly-50-in-five-years-due-to-ai-energy-demand\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Google\u2019s emissions climb nearly 50% in five years due to AI energy demand<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":15016,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15015"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}