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Simon Lester
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There are people arguing that the US should impose tariffs on foreign countries if they don't reduce their carbon emissions related to manufacturing, but these demands are going to be looked at skeptically if our data center emissions are going up.
Google and Microsoft recently admitted their emissions are soaring as they build out data centers to power the AI boom. But analysis from The Guardian suggests the data center emissions of Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Apple are 662% higher than the companies are reporting.
Data center emissions likely 662% higher than big tech claims. Can it keep up the ruse?
Emissions from in-house data centers of Google, Microsoft, Meta and Apple may be 7.62 times higher than official figures
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Simon Lester
@simonlester.com
Founded WorldTradeLaw.net & ChinaTradeMonitor.com. Non-resident fellow at Baker Institute. Trade policy, US politics, Philly sports
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