Five years ago, Google’s climate action ambitions were the gold standard for Big Tech. Then, with power demand spikes from AI data centres, in July it scrubbed its sustainability website of its 2030 net zero pledge.
Nah. Rookie numbers. Burning high sulfur coal is the way to maximize pollution, suffering and death. Might not be as cheap as solar, but that’s the price you have to pay if you want to be the number one enemy of humanity and the rest of the planet.
It looks like they’re not changing their emissions/sustainability goals for the data centers, which honestly is better than every other player right now.
The political climate makes greenwashing problematic, which is some real irony.
I shit on Google for lots of reasons, but barring a fundamental change in the market, at least they’re building renewable energy and taking the local water table into account in decision-making.
Pichai is a McKinsey husk and most of their leadership are yes men. Somehow they’re still better than Microsoft, Meta, Oracle, and obviously better than Xitter (with their trailers of methane burning generators).
Maybe Google is building their own gas power plants, just like these guys.
If it is at least not like the Musk.
Nah. Rookie numbers. Burning high sulfur coal is the way to maximize pollution, suffering and death. Might not be as cheap as solar, but that’s the price you have to pay if you want to be the number one enemy of humanity and the rest of the planet.
Reminds me of the alt text for https://xkcd.com/2948/
“An idling gas engine may be annoyingly loud, but that’s the price you pay for having WAY less torque available at a standstill.”
😆 Randall knows what he is talking about.
https://datacenters.google/operating-sustainably/
It looks like they’re not changing their emissions/sustainability goals for the data centers, which honestly is better than every other player right now.
The political climate makes greenwashing problematic, which is some real irony.
I shit on Google for lots of reasons, but barring a fundamental change in the market, at least they’re building renewable energy and taking the local water table into account in decision-making.
Pichai is a McKinsey husk and most of their leadership are yes men. Somehow they’re still better than Microsoft, Meta, Oracle, and obviously better than Xitter (with their trailers of methane burning generators).
Being better than Meta is not exactly a high bar to clear.😄
Anyway, it’s nice to see that Google is taking at least one thing seriously.