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Google’s Emissions Still Rising, Despite Data Center Decarbonization, Energy Procurement Progress
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The technology companies boasted of ecologism, until the arrival of the AI removed their mask. Today Google and the rest pollute more than ever.
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der Standard DENevertheless, the company is convinced in its current environmental report that it will achieve the objective of climate neutrality by 2030
Google has promised to be carbon neutral by 2030, but its emissions are rising dramatically. A new report claims that the company is actually polluting more than it admits. Its total emissions have increased by 1,515 percent since 2010, with the biggest jump in the last year due to the massive development of artificial intelligence.
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