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Google's electricity consumption surged 12 TWh from 2024 to 2025, reaching 43 TWh, driven by generative AI infrastructure, causing exponential growth in emissions and undermining climate goals.
A UN report reveals that by 2030, AI data centers could consume water equivalent to the basic annual needs of 1.3 billion people, with 80-90% of energy used for daily operations rather than training. Generating a single AI image uses over 1000 times more energy than a basic text task.
Andrew Ng argues that concerns about data centers' carbon emissions, electricity prices, and water use are overstated, and that blocking data center construction would harm the environment more than help it.