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Google’s Carbon Emission On The Rise Thanks To AI

Olagoke Ajibola by Olagoke Ajibola
July 4, 2024
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According to Google’s most recent environmental report, the company’s greenhouse gas emissions have skyrocketed, demonstrating how much more difficult it will be for the company to accomplish its climate targets as it promotes AI.

By 2030, Google hopes to have lowered its emissions that warm the globe in half when compared to a baseline set in 2019. Yet since 2019, its overall emissions of greenhouse gases have increased by 48%. It generated 14.3 million metric tons of carbon dioxide pollution in just the previous year, which was a 13 per cent rise from the previous year and almost equal to the yearly emissions of 38 gas-fired power plants.

Google’s environmental report states that supply chain emissions and data centre energy use are the main causes of the increase in planet-heating pollutants. AI training data centres are particularly energy-intensive than regular data centres. The primary cause of Google’s extra emissions last year was electricity use, which came primarily from data centres and contributed roughly a million metric tons of pollution to the company’s carbon footprint in 2023.

Like so many other tech companies these days, Google is redesigning Search with generative AI and incorporating AI into its other products as part of its Gemini era. In its environmental report, the corporation highlights the possible climate costs associated with those new tools.

According to reports, “reducing emissions may be challenging as we further integrate AI into our products due to increasing energy demands from the greater intensity of AI compute, as well as the emissions associated with the expected increases in our technical infrastructure investment.” In 2023, Google’s data centre electricity consumption increased by 17%; the study states that the company anticipates this “trend” to continue. According to Google’s predictions, as of 2023, its data centres were responsible for up to 10% of the world’s total data centre electricity consumption.

Global carbon emissions down by record 7% in 2020 – DW – 12/11/2020

Google claims it is working to reduce the environmental effect of its hardware, AI models, and data centres by making them more energy-efficient. By 2030, the corporation also wants every power grid it connects to function entirely on carbon-free, pollution-free electricity.

The International Energy Agency (IEA) estimates that data centres consume 1% of the world’s electricity now. However, the IEA recently predicted that the rapidly expanding AI sector may need ten times as much electricity in 2026 as it did in the previous year. This has sparked concerns about the sharp increase in electricity demand brought on by AI straining power grids and possibly extending the life of coal and gas plants longer than they otherwise would have in the US, the nation with the most data centres.

When it comes to AI pushing corporate climate goals further beyond reach, Google is by no means alone. In comparison to 2020, Microsoft’s greenhouse gas emissions increased by over 30% during its fiscal year 2023.

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Olagoke Ajibola

Olagoke Ajibola

Olagoke Ajibola is a creative writer and content producer with an eye for details and excellence. He has a demonstrated history of telling stories for TV, Film and Online. Aside from being fascinated by the power of imagination, his other interest are travel, sport, reading and meeting people.

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