Aigars Mahinovs wrote: > [... 16 lines elided] > > There are also lot of other, very much sustainable datacenters. Even the > big players, like Google invest a lot in developing the green grid in the > areas where their data centers are located - > https://datacenters.google/operating-sustainably/ . Sure, they are not yet > at 100%, but they are funding much more buildout of green energy and grid > than they are consuming. > [... 61 lines elided]
"Google Admits It Missed Its Climate Goals — Again — Because of AI" https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/google-missed-climate-goals-ai >From Google's own 2026 Environmental Report: | [...] reaching our climate moonshot is getting harder. Growing our | data center footprint to build out the infrastructure needed to make | AI as helpful as possible to everyone requires energy and resources. | Like everyone in our industry, we experienced a surge in electricity | demand last year. Our load grew 37% year-over-year -- a rate | tempered by our AI-stack efficiencies. Long waits to connect to | the grid, fragmented markets, supply chain delays, and regulatory | bottlenecks continue to slow down new carbon-free energy from coming | online. We're working within energy systems that simply aren't clean | enough or flexible enough yet. ... | In 2025, our total ambition-based emissions were approximately | 14.5 million tCO2e, representing an 18% year-on-year increase | and an 81% increase compared to our 2019 base year [...] https://sustainability.google/google-2026-environmental-report/
