Power-hungry AI is driving a surge in tech giant carbon emissions. Nobody knows what to do about it
- Written by: Gordon Noble, Research Director, Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney
A Google data centre in the Netherlands.Intreegue Photography / ShutterstockSince the release of ChatGPT in November 2022, the world has seen an incredible surge in investment, development and use of artificial intelligence (AI) applications. According to one estimate, the amount of computational power used for AI is doubling roughly every 100 days...