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Google’s (NASDAQ: Google) (NASDAQ: GoogleThe company said carbon emissions have surged nearly 50% in the past five years due to increased data center energy consumption and supply chain emissions driven by the power demand of artificial intelligence systems. Its week annual environmental report.
Google (GOOG) (GOOGL) said its emissions will rise to 14.3 million metric tons of carbon equivalent in 2023, a 48% increase from the 2019 baseline and a 13% increase from the previous year, which appears to threaten its goal of “net emissions” “Promise of. Zero by 2030”.
The company said energy-related emissions (mainly from data center power consumption) will increase by 37% annually in 2023, accounting for 25% of its total greenhouse gas emissions.
According to CNBC, the impact of artificial intelligence on electricity demand is well documented. Electricity demand is expected to grow by 20% by 2030. Artificial intelligence data centers alone are expected to increase electricity demand in the United States by approximately 323 terawatt hours.
Analysts at Bernstein recently said that artificial intelligence will “double the growth rate of U.S. electricity demand, with total consumption likely to exceed current supply in the next two years.”
Renewable energy is expected to play an important role in meeting AI energy needs, but Wells Fargo analyst Roger Read told CNBC that early implementation will be limited due to factors such as the time it takes to build power lines to carry resources to data centers. It will be difficult.
Google (GOOG) (GOOGL) isn’t the only tech giant to acknowledge rising emissions as a result of demand for artificial intelligence; Microsoft said in May that its emissions had increased by nearly a third since 2020, largely due to data center construction.
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