Google’s emissions climb nearly 50% in five years due to AI energy demand
Tech giant’s goal of reducing climate footprint at risk as it grows increasingly reliant on energy-hungry data centres
Northern Lights, the First Major Carbon Capture and Storage Project in Norway
All about the Northern Lights project, designed to offer European industrial companies a solution for safely and permanently storing their CO2 emissions under the seabed.
Northern Lights is the first project in the world allowing industrial companies to transport and sequester their CO2 emissions. The project is owned in equal shares by TotalEnergies, Equinor and Shell.
Equatic Unveils Oxygen-Selective Anodes, Unlocking Gigaton-Scale Carbon Removal and Green Hydrogen Generation With Seawater Electrolysis
With funding from ARPA-E, the U.S.-manufactured OSAs will make combined carbon removal and clean hydrogen production more scalable, sustainable, and...
Nottingham: Smart particle could hold climate change key
A climate tech company hopes to use an £8m investment to further its research.
Global data center industry to emit 2.5 billion tons of CO2 through 2030, Morgan Stanley says
A boom in data centers is expected to produce about 2.5 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide-equivalent emissions globally through the end of the decade, and accelerate investments in decarbonization efforts, according to Morgan Stanley research.
AI already uses as much energy as a small country. It’s only the beginning.
The energy needed to support data storage is expected to double by 2026. You can do something to stop it.
IEA estimates that, added together, this usage represented almost 2 percent of global energy demand in 2022 — and that demand for these uses could double by 2026
Google reports 50 per cent jump in emissions due to AI energy use
Google's greenhouse gas emissions have increased by half over the last five years due to the energy demands of artificial intelligence.
Microsoft’s Remarkably Big Bet on Carbon-Absorbing Rocks
Why the tech giant is so high on Heirloom Carbon
Heirloom Carbon
Heirloom Carbon,
315,000 metric tons of carbon from the atmosphere over 10 years. For a sense of scale, that’s equivalent to about 75% of the carbon Microsoft emitted in 2022
$200 million, “based on market prices,” or $635 per ton
The process starts with limestone, which is formed from the detritus of corals, clams, and other sea creatures that use the dissolved carbon and calcium in the ocean to build their shells. Heirloom grinds up limestone and does something that humans have been doing for thousands of years — heats it in a kiln. This loosens carbon dioxide from the rock, leaving behind calcium oxide
The Carbon Emissions of Writing and Illustrating Are Lower for AI than for Humans
As AI systems proliferate, their greenhouse gas emissions are an increasingly important concern for human societies. In this article, we present a comparative a