Sahara AI 🔆(@SaharaAI):Google's own environmental report says its data center electricity use rose 37% in 2025, the largest single-year jump in the company's history. The report includes a rare admission. "AI infrastructure buildout is currently accelerating faster than the grid is decarbonizing." Google still matched 100% of consumption with renewable purchases, its ninth straight year doing so. But supply-chain emissions, the ones tied to building the chips and the buildings, grew 25% in the same period. The clean-energy accounting improves but the physical footprint doesn't shrink. Someone's grid is absorbing the difference.

2026.07.04 20:09

Google's own environmental report says its data center electricity use rose 37% in 2025, the largest single-year jump in the company's history. The report includes a rare admission. "AI infrastructure buildout is currently accelerating faster than the grid is decarbonizing." Google still matched 100% of consumption with renewable purchases, its ninth straight year doing so. But supply-chain emissions, the ones tied to building the chips and the buildings, grew 25% in the same period. The clean-energy accounting improves but the physical footprint doesn't shrink. Someone's grid is absorbing the difference.