Google's greenhouse gas emissions rose 48 percent from 2019 to 2023 as AI-driven data center growth accelerates. Data & Society researcher Tamara Kneese links this growth to e-waste, water use and historic environmental racism in Loudoun County, Michigan and Arizona. She also traces tech worker organizing and firings at Amazon, Google and Microsoft over climate and labor issues.
The Cloud is Dead, Deadly, and Haunted – Data & Society
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