Paris MarxJul 2, 2024

The story is always the same: major tech companies tell us they care about the environment to silence criticism, then never actually follow through.

Google’s emissions are up ~50% in 5 years, following similar news Microsoft is also blowing past its climate commitments.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/jul/02/google-ai-emissions

#tech #climate #google #environment #climatechange

Google’s emissions climb nearly 50% in five years due to AI energy demand

Tech giant’s goal of reducing climate footprint at risk as it grows increasingly reliant on energy-hungry data centres

The Guardian
Show threadRonathon Livingston Seagull

last boost: I see a lot of finger-wagging from bros saying "the power consumption angle for objecting to AI is not valid, shit's getting efficient so fast"

bro

bro have you not seen the graphs of productivity vs leisure or income, exploitative demand always inflates to consume all supply, how is this lost on you

violently communicate with all ai bros.

Jul 3, 2024 at 1:54amWeb