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10 days agoThe author neglected to link to the actual report. Page 34 and 35. The Scope 2 stats the article cited don’t account for clean power generated.
Their link for the claim “Google cited AI as the cause” doesn’t mention power at all.
The link for the Microsoft numbers takes me to a report saying the 30% number is for Scope 3 emissions, which have nothing to do data center power usage.
They are. Read their environmental report.
They invested over $3.1 billion in renewable energy projects with an expected combined generation capacity of approximately 4.5 GW. That’s twice as much energy as all their datacenters combined.
New power plants take time.