https://www.scmp.com/rss/520780/feed Rachel Yu is a climate and energy campaigner at Greenpeace East Asia. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming the world but also driving up electricity consumption and carbon emissions. Last May, Microsoft said its emissions had increased by nearly 30 per cent since 2020, which it attributed in part to AI-related infrastructure and hardware, such as data centres and chips. In July, Google said its emissions had shot up by 48 per cent over the past five years, highlighting “the uncertainty around the future environmental impact of AI” as a challenge to the... https://www.scmp.com/opinion/asia-opinion/article/3293959/how-ai-giants-can-help-asian-suppliers-make-clean-energy-transition?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/opinion/asia-opinion/article/3293959/how-ai-giants-can-help-asian-suppliers-make-clean-energy-transition?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 10 Jan 2025 12:30:08 +0000