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Big Tech's AI Data Centres Now Emit as Much Carbon as a Third of France

Microsoft, Amazon and Google collectively pumped out 119 million metric tonnes of carbon dioxide last year. The main culprit: building more data centres to feed AI demand.

3 min read
Aerial 16:9 photograph of a vast, empty rural Scottish landscape with rolling green hills and overcast skies, a cleared flat construction site visible in the mi
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A Scottish AI megasite promised green energy. The reality looks very different.

An £8.2 billion AI data centre complex in rural Scotland overstated its plans to run entirely on renewable power. Reporters had to leave their desks to find that out.

3 min read
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