Five years ago, Google’s climate action ambitions were the gold standard for Big Tech. Then, with power demand spikes from AI data centres, in July it scrubbed its sustainability website of its 2030 net zero pledge.
I mean the whole calculation was ridiculous anyway on how they determined the “net”, so it was never true. It’s just now it’s much more difficult to fudge the numbers since they are using so much dirty power for LLM training.
I mean the whole calculation was ridiculous anyway on how they determined the “net”, so it was never true. It’s just now it’s much more difficult to fudge the numbers since they are using so much dirty power for LLM training.