{"id":15899,"date":"2024-09-15T15:38:57","date_gmt":"2024-09-15T13:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/15\/data-center-emissions-likely-662-higher-than-big-tech-claims-can-it-keep-up-the-ruse\/"},"modified":"2024-09-15T15:38:57","modified_gmt":"2024-09-15T13:38:57","slug":"data-center-emissions-likely-662-higher-than-big-tech-claims-can-it-keep-up-the-ruse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/15\/data-center-emissions-likely-662-higher-than-big-tech-claims-can-it-keep-up-the-ruse\/","title":{"rendered":"Data center emissions likely 662% higher than big tech claims. Can it keep up the ruse?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Emissions from in-house data centers of Google, Microsoft, Meta and Apple may be 7.62 times higher than official tally<\/p>\n<p>Big tech has made some big claims about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/carbon-emissions\">greenhouse gas emissions<\/a> in recent years. But as the rise of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/artificialintelligenceai\">artificial intelligence<\/a> creates ever bigger energy demands, it\u2019s getting hard for the industry to hide the true costs of the data centers powering the tech revolution.<\/p>\n<p>According to a Guardian analysis, from 2020 to 2022 the real emissions from the \u201cin-house\u201d or company-owned data centers of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/google\">Google<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/microsoft\">Microsoft<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/meta\">Meta<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/apple\">Apple<\/a> are likely about 662% \u2013 or 7.62 times \u2013 higher than officially reported.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2024\/sep\/15\/data-center-gas-emissions-tech\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/f58a6cca02dbe1a02815601f6a87bc04990fa4f7\/0_0_4277_2567\/master\/4277.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=9525e313045e167e5c9768e3dee88a84\" title=\"Data center emissions likely 662% higher than big tech claims. Can it keep up the ruse?\" \/>Emissions from in-house data centers of Google, Microsoft, Meta and Apple may be 7.62 times higher than official tally<br \/>\nBig tech has made some big claims about greenhouse gas emissions in recent years. But as the rise of artificial intelligence creates ever bigger energy demands, it\u2019s getting hard for the industry to hide the true costs of the data centers powering the tech revolution.<br \/>\nAccording to a Guardian analysis, from 2020 to 2022 the real emissions from the \u201cin-house\u201d or company-owned data centers of Google, Microsoft, Meta and Apple are likely about 662% \u2013 or 7.62 times \u2013 higher than officially reported. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emissions from in-house data centers of Google, Microsoft, Meta and Apple may be 7.62 times higher than official tally Big tech has made some big claims about greenhouse gas emissions in recent years. But as the rise of artificial intelligence creates ever bigger energy demands, it\u2019s getting hard for the industry to hide the true &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/15\/data-center-emissions-likely-662-higher-than-big-tech-claims-can-it-keep-up-the-ruse\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Data center emissions likely 662% higher than big tech claims. Can it keep up the ruse?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":15900,"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\/15899"}],"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=15899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}