The tech giant, which has seen its planet-warming emissions rise because of artificial intelligence, has stopped buying cheap offsets behind the neutrality claim. The company now aims to reach net-zero carbon by 2030.
The tech giant, which has seen its planet-warming emissions rise because of artificial intelligence, has stopped buying cheap offsets behind the neutrality claim. The company now aims to reach net-zero carbon by 2030.
In theory it does kind of matter in the sense that if every company were committed to using green power in the same way that it would necessitate more such plants being built. If another company is so committed and Google is using all the green power, there'd have to be more green power plants built to satisfy the demand. And Google doesn't really have much control over what kind of power other companies prefer to use.
But yeah, ultimately that's still a small thing