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Data Centers Reportedly 600+ Times Worse for Environment Than Claimed

18 Sep 2024 | Abstracted from Futurism

"The Guardian reports that the actual emissions made by data centers owned by AI leaders including Microsoft, Google, Meta, and Apple, are about 662 percent higher than what they've officially reported...a truer reflection of the actual toll would be 'location-based emissions.

"Meta's official emissions from in-house data centers was just 273 metric tons of CO2. But using location-based data, that soars to 3.8 million metric tons..."

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