Google's emissions increase by nearly 50% in five years as AI usage surges

An anonymous reader cites a Financial Times report: Google's greenhouse gas emissions have soared 48% over the past five years due to the expansion of data centers supporting its artificial intelligence systems, putting the company's pledge to be “net zero” by 2030 in jeopardy. The company's pollution in Silicon Valley will reach 14.3 million tonnes of carbon equivalent in 2023, up 48% from the 2019 baseline and up 13% from last year, Google said in its annual environmental report on Tuesday. Google said the surge highlighted the “challenge of reducing emissions” at the same time it invests in building large-scale language models and related applications and infrastructure, and acknowledged that “the future environmental impacts of AI” are “complex and difficult to predict.”

Chief Sustainability Officer Kate Brandt said the company remains focused on reaching its 2030 goal, but emphasized the “very ambitious” nature of the target. “We expect our emissions to continue to increase until we are down towards our target,” Brandt said. He added that Google is “working very hard” to reduce emissions, including through signing clean energy deals. “There's a huge opportunity for climate action enabled by AI,” Brandt said. […] Google said in its report on Tuesday that its energy-related emissions in 2023 — mainly due to electricity consumption by its data centers — rose 37% year over year and, overall, accounted for a quarter of the company's total greenhouse gas emissions. The company's supply chain emissions — its largest share at 75% of its total emissions — also increased 8%. The company said emissions “will continue to increase in the near term” as it builds out the infrastructure needed to run its AI systems.

Google has committed to achieving net-zero direct and indirect greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 and running on carbon-free energy for every hour of every day within each grid it operates by that date. But the company warned in its report on Tuesday that the “finishing” of some clean energy projects during 2023 reduced the amount of renewable energy available to it. Meanwhile, the company's data center electricity consumption “outpaced” Google's ability to bring more clean power projects online in the U.S. and Asia-Pacific. The company estimates that Google's data center electricity consumption will increase by 17% in 2023, reaching about 7-10% of global data center electricity consumption. Google also said its data center water consumption increased 17% in 2023 from the previous year.

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