Google’s Emissions Climbed 48% Since 2019. AI Is Why. : technology

[-] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

AI-powered searches consume roughly ten times more energy than standard Google searches.

When you're Googling something add "-ai" (without the quotes to the end of your search string. It will skip processing the search with and AI and answer and presumably drop your Google search CO2 footprint by 90%.

[-] bold_atlas@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Or you can reduce it by 100% by not using google at all.

[-] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Your search with any search engine will produce CO2.

[-] bold_atlas@lemmy.world 0 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

So does breathing. Doesn't mean I have to breath in Google's nasty AI fumes.

[-] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

I'm going back to the dewey decimal system. I'm going to need a giant card catalog

[-] bold_atlas@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago

We need to go back to home pages with lists of useful websites.

[-] lechekaflan@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Pichai, you fucking banchode.

[-] myyass@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Here's Johnny!

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 30 points 2 days ago

They’re being evil

[-] schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 62 points 3 days ago

It can't go with out commenting that the current US Administration is actively and irrationally hostile to any alternative forms of energy.

[-] lechekaflan@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

That regime is also against anything and anyone that threatens the oligarchy and inhibits profit-making.

[-] kn0wmad1c@programming.dev 29 points 3 days ago

It's not irrational. They're being paid to actively denigrate and deny the benefits of clean energy.

[-] drcobaltjedi@programming.dev 20 points 3 days ago

I mean, Trump has a weird vendetta against wind power after some wind turbines were built near one of his golf courses.

[-] bold_atlas@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Quite a coincidence that capital and Trump have the same vendetta.

[-] crispbacon99@lemmy.zip 16 points 2 days ago

He paid to stop the construction of a wind farm in Germany because that's what the oil execs want even if it means destroying ecosystem

[-] Jiral@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago

I think you are confusing something here. He paid a German company to stop a wind power construction project in the US.

[-] T156@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Both could be true at once.

[-] halcyoncmdr@piefed.social 8 points 2 days ago

weird vendetta against wind power

It's not weird, it's extremely simple. He's a child. He doesn't like the look of them, so he hates them. And since he hates them, they're bad. Even if they're in the middle of nowhere.

[-] darkmogool@feddit.org 5 points 2 days ago

Luckily I startet to recycle my yoghurt cups…

[-] vane@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago

This is 100% green energy because they bought enough green certificates on the market.

[-] Jiral@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The US does not have a functioning certificate market, does it? And ind the EU those ultra durty gas turbines are illegal for use as power plant replacement for data centres, aren't they?

[-] vane@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

You can cheat.

The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) is a United Nations-run carbon offset scheme allowing countries to fund greenhouse gas emissions-reducing projects in other countries and claim the saved emissions as part of their own efforts to meet international emissions targets.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_Development_Mechanism

[-] VonReposti@feddit.dk 6 points 2 days ago

Everything is pay to win nowadays...

[-] jumping_redditor@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

that is the intent of capitalism

[-] vane@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

[-] Jiral@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

In order to count for the it must be more than a sham, though.

[-] nodiratime@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

Evil corp

[+] notSys@lemmy.cafe -8 points 2 days ago

Very good, considering how much Google’s revenue has risen over that time.

[-] athatet@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago

Who exactly is it very good for?

[-] notSys@lemmy.cafe -3 points 1 day ago

Envinronment.

Google is now able to generate 43% more value to the society (revenue) per unit of pollution. Their profits rose by 93% (market cap by 66%) adjusted to pollution.

[-] athatet@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Value to society. Yeah no.

[-] notSys@lemmy.cafe 0 points 1 day ago

What better way than price of services sold do you have to measure generated value?

[-] athatet@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 day ago

Pretty much any other metric besides money is going to be a better measurement.

[-] notSys@lemmy.cafe 0 points 23 hours ago

What exactly?

[-] bold_atlas@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Fake money, fake tech, fake people, fake value, real consequences.

[-] notSys@lemmy.cafe -3 points 1 day ago

You can't just call things fake.

Money is the best thing to measure value.

Notice how I’m not even including emissions reduced by Google claiming parts of the market (so, for example, if Bing had 20% of search engine market share and generated 2X pollution, while Google had 80% and generated 8X pollution, Google taking over the whole market wouldn’t change total pollution output, because total pollution stays at 10X).

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