Google’s Emissions Climbed 48% Since 2019. AI Is Why.
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Pichai, you fucking banchode.
Here's Johnny!
When you're Googling something add "-ai" (without the quotes to the end of your search string. It will skip processing the search with and AI and answer and presumably drop your Google search CO2 footprint by 90%.
Or you can reduce it by 100% by not using google at all.
Your search with any search engine will produce CO2.
I'm going back to the dewey decimal system. I'm going to need a giant card catalog
Luckily I startet to recycle my yoghurt cups…
They’re being evil
It can't go with out commenting that the current US Administration is actively and irrationally hostile to any alternative forms of energy.
That regime is also against anything and anyone that threatens the oligarchy and inhibits profit-making.
It's not irrational. They're being paid to actively denigrate and deny the benefits of clean energy.
I mean, Trump has a weird vendetta against wind power after some wind turbines were built near one of his golf courses.
Quite a coincidence that capital and Trump have the same vendetta.
He paid to stop the construction of a wind farm in Germany because that's what the oil execs want even if it means destroying ecosystem
I think you are confusing something here. He paid a German company to stop a wind power construction project in the US.
Both could be true at once.
It's not weird, it's extremely simple. He's a child. He doesn't like the look of them, so he hates them. And since he hates them, they're bad. Even if they're in the middle of nowhere.
This is 100% green energy because they bought enough green certificates on the market.
The US does not have a functioning certificate market, does it? And ind the EU those ultra durty gas turbines are illegal for use as power plant replacement for data centres, aren't they?
You can cheat.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_Development_Mechanism
Everything is pay to win nowadays...
that is the intent of capitalism
In order to count for the it must be more than a sham, though.
Evil corp
Very good, considering how much Google’s revenue has risen over that time.
Who exactly is it very good for?
Envinronment.
Google is now able to generate 43% more value to the society (revenue) per unit of pollution. Their profits rose by 93% (market cap by 66%) adjusted to pollution.
Fake money, fake tech, fake people, fake value, real consequences.
You can't just call things fake.
Money is the best thing to measure value.
Notice how I’m not even including emissions reduced by Google claiming parts of the market (so, for example, if Bing had 20% of search engine market share and generated 2X pollution, while Google had 80% and generated 8X pollution, Google taking over the whole market wouldn’t change total pollution output, because total pollution stays at 10X).