

Google CO2 emissions were 1.5 MTo in 2010. By 2018 they were 13 MTo. In 2023 they were 14 MTo.
I’m sorry but there’s more to the story that what’s being told in the article. For starters any dataset that takes 2019/2020 as their base line is skewed, we all know what happened that year.
And, on the other hand, Google emissions increased by almost a 1000% in ten years before AI.
Truth is more important than that agenda or the dogma. That article does the wild assumption that a big share of the increase in electricity usage is because AI. It may be, or it may not be, but the article presents zero evidences for that claim. And data in hand we know that google can use a ton of electricity without AI. So the impact of AI may or may not be as big as portrayed by the article. And it also disregards completely the massive increases in google emissions before 2019.
In my country we had always had massive unemployment rates.
People just live with family and keep studying until they can land a job. Plenty of people here hasn’t got a job until their thirties, and rarely in the field the initially thought they’d be working.
It’s shit living with your parents until you are 35, but it has been the deal here until very recently.