weenz miguelJul 41 min readAI energy demand has caused Google's greenhouse gas emissions to increase by almost 50% in just five years.On July 2, 2024, Google published its 2024 environmental report, which included information about the company's sustainability initiatives in 2023 as well as their development.The IT giant disclosed its environmental impact in the study, which included a 48% rise in greenhouse gas emissions from 2019 onwards.Google has made significant investments in artificial intelligence (AI) over the years, which is thought to be the reason behind the increase in emissions.The energy needs of generative AIAccording to the study, in 2023, Google emitted 14.3 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (tCo2e) into the atmosphere.This represented an increase of 13% from the previous year and 48% from 2019.According to Google, the main causes of this increase were "increases in supply chain emissions and data center energy consumption."Massive amounts of data are stored in data centers to power AI models like OpenAI's GPT-4 and Google's Gemini.The ChatGPT chatbot, a generative AI created in 2022, is then powered by them.A tool called generative AI has the ability to create original text, graphics, audio, and video clips.As to a recent study cited by the BBC, it consumes approximately 33 times more energy than computers running software tailored to specific tasks.A ChatGPT request usually uses nearly nine times more electricity than a Google search query, according to an estimate from the International Energy Agency (IEA), which was cited by CNN.According to the BBC, the IEA projected that by 2026, data centers might require 1,000 terawatt-hours of electricity yearly, or "roughly equivalent to the electricity consumption of Japan."
On July 2, 2024, Google published its 2024 environmental report, which included information about the company's sustainability initiatives in 2023 as well as their development.The IT giant disclosed its environmental impact in the study, which included a 48% rise in greenhouse gas emissions from 2019 onwards.Google has made significant investments in artificial intelligence (AI) over the years, which is thought to be the reason behind the increase in emissions.The energy needs of generative AIAccording to the study, in 2023, Google emitted 14.3 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (tCo2e) into the atmosphere.This represented an increase of 13% from the previous year and 48% from 2019.According to Google, the main causes of this increase were "increases in supply chain emissions and data center energy consumption."Massive amounts of data are stored in data centers to power AI models like OpenAI's GPT-4 and Google's Gemini.The ChatGPT chatbot, a generative AI created in 2022, is then powered by them.A tool called generative AI has the ability to create original text, graphics, audio, and video clips.As to a recent study cited by the BBC, it consumes approximately 33 times more energy than computers running software tailored to specific tasks.A ChatGPT request usually uses nearly nine times more electricity than a Google search query, according to an estimate from the International Energy Agency (IEA), which was cited by CNN.According to the BBC, the IEA projected that by 2026, data centers might require 1,000 terawatt-hours of electricity yearly, or "roughly equivalent to the electricity consumption of Japan."
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