Google’s newest AI datacenter & its monstrous CO2 emissions

The impact of the rise of AI on the environment is a very real concern, and it’s not one that’s going away in a hurry. Especially not when Google’s planned new datacenter in the UK looks set to emit the same quantity of Carbon Dioxide in a year as hundreds of flights every week would.

It comes via a report from The Guardian, which has seen the plans for the new facility and the very real carbon impact assessment.