The most egregious statistic in Google's 2024 Environmental Report is the tech giant's whopping 48 percent increase in greenhouse gas emissions compared to 2019, the base year against which the company's progress is tracked. That's a 13 percent increase year on year, amounting to 14.3 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent. Continue reading

Google totally dodges the question of how much energy is AI is using — perhaps because the answer is "way more than we'd care to say."

Google, which has an ambitious plan to address climate change with cleaner operations, came nowhere close to its goals last year, according to the company’s annual Environmental Report Tuesday