Microsoft's carbon emissions jumped 25% in a year building AI data centres (theguardian.com)
Google's emissions grew 18% on capital-goods spending for new capacity, and Amazon's cloud arm burned an estimated 78,000 gigawatt-hours in 2025, its largest jump on record.
In the thread, one reader flagged a live preview: Irish datacentres already draw 23% of the country's entire electricity supply, up from just 5% in 2015 - not alarming, another shrugged, since datacentres will simply "ride the transition to green energy for free."
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