{"id":15033,"date":"2024-07-04T19:37:50","date_gmt":"2024-07-04T17:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/04\/can-the-climate-survive-the-insatiable-energy-demands-of-the-ai-arms-race\/"},"modified":"2024-07-04T19:37:50","modified_gmt":"2024-07-04T17:37:50","slug":"can-the-climate-survive-the-insatiable-energy-demands-of-the-ai-arms-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/04\/can-the-climate-survive-the-insatiable-energy-demands-of-the-ai-arms-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Can the climate survive the insatiable energy demands of the AI arms race?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New computing infrastructure means big tech is likely to miss emissions targets but they can\u2019t afford to get left behind in a winner takes all market<\/p>\n<p>The artificial intelligence boom has driven big tech share prices to fresh highs, but at the cost of the sector\u2019s climate aspirations.<\/p>\n<p>Google <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/article\/2024\/jul\/02\/google-ai-emissions\">admitted on Tuesday<\/a> that the technology is threatening its environmental targets after revealing that datacentres, a key piece of AI infrastructure, had helped increase its greenhouse gas emissions by 48% since 2019. It said \u201csignificant uncertainty\u201d around reaching its target of net zero emissions by 2030 \u2013 reducing the overall amount of CO2 emissions it is responsible for to zero \u2013 included \u201cthe uncertainty around the future environmental impact of AI, which is complex and difficult to predict\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/article\/2024\/jul\/04\/can-the-climate-survive-the-insatiable-energy-demands-of-the-ai-arms-race\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/aec25eda9acc54b1bb0a014896d86a73ea7dd4b7\/0_62_2000_1202\/master\/2000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=882a64d7844ccc3e3b9fe9d1ac90f991\" title=\"Can the climate survive the insatiable energy demands of the AI arms race?\" \/>New computing infrastructure means big tech is likely to miss emissions targets but they can\u2019t afford to get left behind in a winner takes all market<br \/>\nThe artificial intelligence boom has driven big tech share prices to fresh highs, but at the cost of the sector\u2019s climate aspirations.<br \/>\nGoogle admitted on Tuesday that the technology is threatening its environmental targets after revealing that datacentres, a key piece of AI infrastructure, had helped increase its greenhouse gas emissions by 48% since 2019. It said \u201csignificant uncertainty\u201d around reaching its target of net zero emissions by 2030 \u2013 reducing the overall amount of CO2 emissions it is responsible for to zero \u2013 included \u201cthe uncertainty around the future environmental impact of AI, which is complex and difficult to predict\u201d. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New computing infrastructure means big tech is likely to miss emissions targets but they can\u2019t afford to get left behind in a winner takes all market The artificial intelligence boom has driven big tech share prices to fresh highs, but at the cost of the sector\u2019s climate aspirations. Google admitted on Tuesday that the technology &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/04\/can-the-climate-survive-the-insatiable-energy-demands-of-the-ai-arms-race\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Can the climate survive the insatiable energy demands of the AI arms race?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":15034,"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\/15033"}],"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=15033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}