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.
It really is depressing when talking to folks in the Cloud HPC/AI space who just do not care. As long as they get to play with cool toys, the world can burn.
It'll all be ok as long as the rest of us turn off our air conditioning so the AI can have more electricity. Sacrifices must be made (by us, of course, not them).
