The demand for extreme computational capacity from AI systems has put strain on the global data centers of the tech giant.
Google continued to caution that cutting these emissions “may be challenging” in its most recent environmental report, particularly as it constructs new infrastructure.
In response to the increasing demand for artificial intelligence, the corporation announced at the beginning of this year that it would be investing £788 million in the UK to build a brand-new data center.
However, all of this is happening while Google gets closer to meeting its own goal of having net zero emissions by the end of the decade.
As AI use keeps rising, worries about how it can affect climate change are becoming more prevalent.
According to a recent research by the International Energy Agency, data centers may need twice as much electricity between 2022 and 2026.
It’s not always the case, even though Google’s statistics show that the majority of the electricity used in its data centers located in Europe and the Americas comes from carbon-free sources.
This is due to the fact that locations in Australia, Asia, and the Middle East utilize substantially less energy derived from cleaner sources.
