Google quietly removes net-zero carbon goal from website amid rapid power-hungry AI data center buildout — industry-first sustainability pledge moved to background amidst AI energy crisis (www.tomshardware.com)
from throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to tech@programming.dev on 05 Sep 17:48
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supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz on 05 Sep 17:53 next collapse

This is commiting to murdering the future of our children, it is no less of a crime.

These are the men most responsible for this now inveitable mass murder.

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In return for their casually deployed violence we commit their names, faces and crimes to memory.

n3m37h@sh.itjust.works on 05 Sep 18:10 next collapse

Because it is impossible with current technology. They need to scrap all this ai search for the masses, it uses exponentally more electricity for worse results. I don’t understand this bullshit

hendrik@palaver.p3x.de on 05 Sep 18:24 next collapse

I think the AI isn't there because it's a helpful tool. They're pushing some agenda. As they do with making Android less open source, development more difficult and all kinds of things they're doing lately.

supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz on 05 Sep 18:38 collapse

The energy use and inefficiency is a critical part of a broader strategy to edge society into a normalization of people being denied basic necessities like electricity and water.

TommySoda@lemmy.world on 05 Sep 18:17 next collapse

I highly doubt they were gonna do anything either way. All these big corporations do is buy carbon offsets, which is exactly what they would do as they open more datacenters. It’s a game of averages and as long as they buy enough carbon offsets they can technically say they are net-zero while not changing anything.

UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world on 05 Sep 18:49 collapse

Broadly speaking, solar and wind are so cheap and so resilient to long term price shocks that they’ve fully taken over new energy build outs.

This isn’t a question of carbon offsets. It’s a question of “What’s most cost efficient?” And, by the GWh, it is green energy by inches, soon by yards.

Shame all that new capacity is being squandered to digitally masturbate. We could use it to decommission old fossil fuel plants, rather than stacking them up side by side.

usernameunnecessary@lemmy.zip on 05 Sep 18:19 next collapse

I love how flexible Google’s moral values have been over the years

reddig33@lemmy.world on 05 Sep 18:32 next collapse

“AI energy crisis” — also known as “We don’t want to pay for infrastructure. Sell us your electricity at rates cheaper than home consumers.”

Google and the rest of them need to get off their asses and lobby Trump to stop killing wind and solar projects. This whole manufactured crisis is so tech corps and oil companies can make more profits at everyone else’s expense.

homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world on 05 Sep 18:32 next collapse

This exactly. And fuck tomshardware for even using “AI energy crisis”

UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world on 05 Sep 18:45 collapse

Google and the rest of them need to get off their asses and lobby Trump to stop killing wind and solar projects.

Why would they do that when they can in-house capacity they need and leach the public grid for the rest?

This whole manufactured crisis is so tech corps and oil companies can make more profits at everyone else’s expense.

And it’s working out great. Both these industries are making a killing.

octopus_ink@slrpnk.net on 05 Sep 19:54 collapse

We truly never learn.