This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The artificial intelligence boom has driven Big Tech share prices to fresh highs, but at the cost of the sector’s climate aspirations. Google admitted on Tuesday that the technology is threatening its environmental targets after revealing that data centers, a key piece of AI infrastructure, had helped increase its greenhouse gas emissions by 48 percent since 2019.
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Dan Milmo, Alex Hern, and Jillian Ambrose, Mother Jones
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