The Google Bay View campus in Mountain View, California, US, on Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2023. Mike Kai Chen/Bloomberg/Getty Images/File
Clare Duffy, CNN – 3 July 2024
New YorkCNN —
As Google has rushed to incorporate artificial intelligence into its core products — with sometimes less-than-stellar results — a problem has been brewing behind the scenes: the systems needed to power its AI tools have vastly increased the company’s greenhouse gas emissions.
AI systems need lots of computers to make them work. The data centers needed to run them, essentially warehouses full of powerful computing equipment, suck up tons of energy to process data and manage the heat all of those computers produce…