Re: Environmental impact of Debian's AI usage

Aigars Mahinovs wrote:

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> There are also lot of other, very much sustainable datacenters. Even the
> big players, like Google invest a lot in developing the green grid in the
> areas where their data centers are located -
> https://datacenters.google/operating-sustainably/ . Sure, they are not yet
> at 100%, but they are funding much more buildout of green energy and grid
> than they are consuming.
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"Google Admits It Missed Its Climate Goals — Again — Because of AI"
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/google-missed-climate-goals-ai

>From Google's own 2026 Environmental Report:

| [...] reaching our climate moonshot is getting harder.  Growing our
| data center footprint to build out the infrastructure needed to make
| AI as helpful as possible to everyone requires energy and resources.
| Like everyone in our industry, we experienced a surge in electricity
| demand last year.  Our load grew 37% year-over-year -- a rate
| tempered by our AI-stack efficiencies.  Long waits to connect to
| the grid, fragmented markets, supply chain delays, and regulatory
| bottlenecks continue to slow down new carbon-free energy from coming
| online. We're working within energy systems that simply aren't clean
| enough or flexible enough yet.

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| In 2025, our total ambition-based emissions were approximately 
| 14.5 million tCO2e, representing an 18% year-on-year increase
| and an 81% increase compared to our 2019 base year [...]

https://sustainability.google/google-2026-environmental-report/