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Google’s emissions up 51% as AI electricity demand derails efforts to go green
(www.theguardian.com)
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In the report, the company also said AI could have a “net positive potential” on climate, because it hoped the emissions reductions enabled by AI applications would be greater than the emissions generated by the AI itself, including its energy consumption from datacentres.
Everyone knows this a line of bullshit that is never going to play out. Even if AI worked like they claimed, and it indisputably does not, it would not lead to energy efficiencies that overcame the massive waste that LLM based AI is to begin with.