On Thu, 20 Aug 2026 at 20:00, Amin Bandali <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. Yes, that is *exactly* what I wrote. Google is not 100% green in their data center power sourcing, but they are investing *heavily* to bring up green energy as fast as humanly possible. Without those investements, these green energy systems would *not* have been financed or build. At the end of the day, there is is far more green energy production there *because* Google is using all it can get its hands on and is paying premium for it. Consumption *creates* green energy. Without AI *and* big players driving sustainability there would have been *less* green energy on the grid today. -- Best regards, Aigars Mahinovs
