Google's AI efforts slow sustainability gains

Google's AI efforts slow sustainability gains - CIO Dive

Dive Insight: While Google's AI efforts make the company's sustainability goals harder to reach, the company says the technology could help long ...

Google's AI efforts slow sustainability gains - Environmental News Bits

Google's AI efforts slow sustainability gains ... Read the full story at ESG Dive. Google is struggling to reduce emissions as AI efforts drive up ...

Google's greenhouse gas emissions are soaring thanks to AI - CNN

“We know that scaling AI and using it to accelerate climate action is just as crucial as addressing the environmental impact associated with it, ...

Google Faces Challenges in Reducing Carbon Footprint Amid AI ...

Google's efforts to reduce its carbon footprint are facing significant hurdles as the technology giant's energy consumption surges due to the power demands of ...

Accelerating climate action with AI - The Keyword

AI has the potential to mitigate 5-10% of global greenhouse gas emissions according to our new report with Boston Consulting Group.

Google CEO Says AI Makes Sustainability Goals 'Challenging'

Google CEO Sundar Pichai said the artificial intelligence boom is “challenging” to the company's carbon emissions goal.

Google blames 48% increase in emissions on AI - CSO Futures

Google's greenhouse gas emissions were 48% higher in 2023 than in 2019, according to the company's sustainability report published Tuesday.

Google blames AI as its emissions grow instead of heading to net zero

Google points to artificial intelligence and demand it puts on energy-hungry data centres for its growth in emissions.

Google's Latest Emissions Reporting Discerns Decarbonization ...

Google is investing heavily in sustainability and carbon-free energy, but the rapid growth of AI - and the data centers to support it - is ...

Google falling short of important climate target, cites electricity needs ...

Some experts say the rapidly expanding data centers needed to power AI threaten the entire transition to clean electricity, an important part of ...

AI for the Global Goals - Google

Since we began funding AI projects for social impact in 2018, we have supported efforts ranging from low-cost air quality sensors mounted on motorcycle taxis in ...

From algorithms to emissions: Google struggles with AI's energy ...

Tech giant Google's push to integrate artificial intelligence (AI) across its core products has led to a significant environmental ...

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt urges AI acceleration, dismisses ...

... AI's negative environmental impact, such as improving batteries and power lines for datacentres. However, he believes that the growth of AI ... slowing as AI ...

Using data and AI to track progress toward the UN Global Goals

We know we have a long way to go to meet the SDGs, and we believe that AI has tremendous potential to help people and organizations accelerate ...

Microsoft and Google's GHG emissions gains call viability of net ...

“While these efforts have helped mitigate some of AI's environmental footprint, the rapid advancement of AI has brought necessary increased ...

Google's greenhouse gas emissions have skyrocketed in the last ...

Google is struggling to balance long-term sustainability goals while keeping pace with key competitors in the generative AI race.

Google wants to be at the center of all your climate change decisions

In 2021, Google announced a new effort to reduce carbon emissions in cities called Project Green Light, an AI-driven effort to make traffic ...

Google's AI-fueled gains in cloud bode well for Amazon, Microsoft

The pace of growth had slowed for several quarters until the third ... efforts." While Google Cloud has less AI capacity than its peers ...

How Google is Using AI to Make Cities More Sustainable - Medium

Intersections are major contributors to greenhouse gas emissions, and Google's Project Green Light aims to tackle this issue using AI. By ...

Google's CSO Kate Brandt on How AI Can Accelerate Climate Action

Kate Brandt has been working since 2015 to make Google's operations and products more sustainable and was named its chief sustainability officer in 2018.