<story><title>Google&apos;s carbon emissions surge nearly 50% due to AI energy demand</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2024/07/02/googles-carbon-emissions-surge-nearly-50percent-due-to-ai-energy-demand.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kens</author><text>The headline is bogus and most of the comments are responding to the headline. Google&amp;#x27;s emissions increased 13% since last year, &amp;quot;primarily due to increases in data center energy consumption and supply chain emissions.&amp;quot; It&amp;#x27;s unclear how much is due to AI. The supposed surge is a 48% increase compared to *2019*, consisting of moderate increases every year since 2020, not a nearly 50% surge due to AI.&lt;p&gt;Google&amp;#x27;s document is at: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.gstatic.com&amp;#x2F;gumdrop&amp;#x2F;sustainability&amp;#x2F;google-2024-environmental-report.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.gstatic.com&amp;#x2F;gumdrop&amp;#x2F;sustainability&amp;#x2F;google-2024-e...&lt;/a&gt;
See pdf page 8 &amp;#x2F; document page 7 for details, as well as the graph on page 32&amp;#x2F;31.</text></comment>
<story><title>Google&apos;s carbon emissions surge nearly 50% due to AI energy demand</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2024/07/02/googles-carbon-emissions-surge-nearly-50percent-due-to-ai-energy-demand.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Frieren</author><text>I see the current gold rush of AI the same way I saw crypto-currencies. Even if originally there were people that believed in the concept it became just a snake-oil sellers business.&lt;p&gt;The parallelism is made even more relevant by its hungry use of electricity.&lt;p&gt;There is a future for AI but it is not what we see companies developing right now. Chat-bots are more dystopian and problematic than useful. AI future (and present) is on analyzing big chunks of data about chemical bounds, traffic-flow, astronomical observations, etc.&lt;p&gt;But all that really useful AI is not attracting the kind of investment that flashy consumer-oriented chat-bots are getting.</text></comment>