Paris MarxJul 5, 2024

Google’s emissions are up 48% in 5 years. Microsoft’s are up 30% since 2020. Those soaring figures are being driven by mass investments in data centers to power AI tools.

Generative AI is a climate disaster and data center expansion must be stopped.

https://disconnect.blog/generative-ai-is-a-climate-disaster/

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Generative AI is a climate disaster

Tech companies are abandoning emissions pledges to chase AI market share

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Show threadMarius Kießling
@parismarx As much as I hate the current AI craze and the massive amount of energy that is required to power it, isn’t an increase in emissions over 5 years too long to fully attribute to the genAI shit show? Both Google and Microsoft have heavily expanded their Cloud business in the last 5 years, hosting massively more workloads for their customers.
Jul 5, 2024 at 5:40pmWeb