While the mass adoption of AI has transformed digital life seemingly overnight, regulators have fallen asleep on the job in curtailing AI data centers’ drain on energy and water resources.
I would point out that Google has been “carbon neutral” with it’s data centers for quite some time, unlike others who still rape the environment ahem AWS.
I would point out that Google has been “carbon neutral” with it’s data centers for quite some time, unlike others who still rape the environment ahem AWS.
carbon neutral is when you don’t emit it in the first place, not by paying someone else to promise to make up for it later.
Carbon offsets? Yes indeed. The easiest, most useless way to reach carbon neutral.