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Google is pumping out more greenhouse gas than ever before – with its CO2 emissions surging by 48 per cent in the past five years.
This is despite the tech giant’s intention to producer net-zero emissions by 2030.
Google’s latest environmental report shows that its greenhouse gas emissions were 13 per cent higher in 2023 than 2022 – producing the equivalent of 14.3 million tonnes of CO2.
That is a similar amount of CO2 as would be generated in a year by around 29 gas-fired power stations.
The main reason was increased energy use from data centre consumption and its supply chain, the report said, as well as artificial intelligence (AI).
AI – which uses a lot of …