{"id":23,"date":"2026-07-07T04:31:58","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T04:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/madebyhumans.international\/?p=23"},"modified":"2026-07-07T04:34:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T04:34:00","slug":"big-tech-carbon-emissions-growing-exponentially","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madebyhumans.international\/news\/big-tech-carbon-emissions-growing-exponentially\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Tech carbon emissions growing exponentially"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Google is seeing the biggest emission gains of the top tech players, but Microsoft, Amazon, and Meta are <strong>all <\/strong>seeing increases as well:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"994\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/madebyhumans.international\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Ongoing-AllCompanies-Scope2-994x1024.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25\" srcset=\"https:\/\/madebyhumans.international\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Ongoing-AllCompanies-Scope2-994x1024.webp 994w, https:\/\/madebyhumans.international\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Ongoing-AllCompanies-Scope2-291x300.webp 291w, https:\/\/madebyhumans.international\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Ongoing-AllCompanies-Scope2-768x791.webp 768w, https:\/\/madebyhumans.international\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Ongoing-AllCompanies-Scope2-1320x1360.webp 1320w, https:\/\/madebyhumans.international\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Ongoing-AllCompanies-Scope2.webp 1491w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 994px) 100vw, 994px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Carbon emissions from things like data centers aren&#8217;t new, but <strong>AI is significantly accelerating them<\/strong>, as these charts show. That&#8217;s in <strong>stark contrast<\/strong> to the sales pitches by big tech companies that AI will figure out how to solve things like climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In an in-depth report, Ketan Joshi points out:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Google\u2019s power consumption rose by 7 TWh between 2023 and 2024. That was bad. But it rose by a whopping <strong>12 TWh<\/strong> between 2024 and 2025, almost <strong>double <\/strong>last year\u2019s increase. Google\u2019s power consumption isn\u2019t just growing \u2013 the rate at which it is growing is growing. We have a word for this: <strong>exponential growth.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read more in <a href=\"https:\/\/ketanjoshi.co\/2026\/07\/01\/googles-exponential-path-to-climate-wrecking-digital-bloat\/\">the &#8220;Google\u2019s exponential path to climate-wrecking digital bloat&#8221; report by Ketan Joshi<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google is seeing the biggest emission gains of the top tech players, but Microsoft, Amazon, and Meta are all seeing increases as well<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11],"tags":[14,17,16,12,15,13],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ai-news","category-bad-stuff","tag-amazon","tag-data-centers","tag-emissions","tag-google","tag-meta","tag-microsoft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madebyhumans.international\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madebyhumans.international\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madebyhumans.international\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madebyhumans.international\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madebyhumans.international\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/madebyhumans.international\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26,"href":"https:\/\/madebyhumans.international\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions\/26"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madebyhumans.international\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madebyhumans.international\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madebyhumans.international\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madebyhumans.international\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}