#carbon-emissions — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #carbon-emissions, aggregated by home.social.
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"The web is growing every day and the volume of data transmitted is constantly increasing. What’s more, it still excludes a great many people. An average website generates 1.76 g of CO₂ per page view, which amounts to an estimated 211 kg per year. At the same time, 1.3 billion people live with some form of disability. That is one in six people who potentially struggle with poor colour contrast, missing image descriptions or broken keyboard navigation."
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"Developers working for Google have significantly misstated how much carbon two proposed AI datacentres will contribute to the UK’s total emissions in planning documents reviewed by the Guardian.
The tech company wants to build two huge datacentres – one 52-hectare (130 acre) project in Thurrock and another at an airfield in North Weald, both in Essex. To do so, developers are required to submit planning documents calculating how much carbon these projects will emit as a proportion of the UK’s total carbon footprint.
In both cases, they appear to have compared one year of the proposed datacentre’s emissions with the UK’s entire five-year carbon budget, understating the significance of their emissions by a factor of five, according to experts at the tech justice nonprofit Foxglove.
Greystoke, a company planning to build another datacentre in north Lincolnshire, one of the largest in the UK, also appears to have misstated the emissions of its project in the same way. Taken together, the three developments will account for more than 1% of the UK’s carbon budget in 2033. This is the equivalent to the emissions of a mid-sized city such as Bristol."
#UK #Google DataCenters #CarbonEmissions
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Google developers significantly misstate carbon emissions of proposed UK datacentres https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/may/09/google-developers-significantly-misstate-carbon-emissions-of-proposed-uk-datacentres #AI #DataCentres #Google #GoogleLies #TechRegulation #pollution #CarbonEmissions #ClimateChange #EnergyHog #pollution #PublicHealth #UK #Canada #USA
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https://winbuzzer.com/2026/05/08/microsofts-ai-data-center-push-is-colliding-with-i-xcxwbn/
How Microsoft's AI Expansion Strains Its Clean-Power Promise
#AI #AIInfrastructure #Microsoft #AICompute #DataCenters #CloudInfrastructure #MicrosoftCloud #Sustainability #ClimateTech #Carbonemissions #BigTech
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Brussels mulls scrapping methane fines amid energy crisis – leak
The European Commission is considering suspending methane fines for oil and gas producers during gas shortages, emergency storage…
#NewsBeep #News #Environment #AU #Australia #CarbonEmissions #Europe'senergycrisis #EuropeanCommission #methane #Science
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Crikey | Why big tech has always been obsessed with hiding its shame by Ketan Joshi
AI generated summary, Read the full article for complete information.
The article argues that big‑tech companies routinely obscure the true scale of their environmental impact, pointing to examples such as Amazon’s claim of 100 % renewable power while fighting mandatory emissions reporting, and using Canberra Data Centres (CDC) as a case study: its founder Greg Boorer boasts that Australia can build world‑class data centres and still meet net‑zero targets by tapping “substantial unused capacity” in the power system and claims CDC is already net‑zero, despite the broader reality that the industry is imposing massive new energy demand on suburban fringes and relying on vague promises of future technological fixes to downplay the issue.
Read more: https://www.crikey.com.au/2026/05/04/data-centres-carbon-emissions-meta-apple-amazon-microsoft/
#Amazon #GregBoorer #carbonemissions #climatechange #datacentres
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Former Treasury boss says Australians left with little to show from commodities boom
Why doesn’t Australia collect more tax revenue on the sale of its natural resources? We are a high-income…
#NewsBeep #News #Economy #anthonyalbanese #Business #carbonemissions #ClimateChange #Gasindustry #KenHenry #Liquefiednaturalgas #LNG #oilandgassector #resourcerenttaxation #RossGarnaut #UK #UnitedKingdom
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"The UK government vastly underestimated the climate impact of artificial intelligence, it has emerged, after officials raised their estimate of carbon emissions from AI by a factor of more than 100.
According to new data quietly published this week, energy use by AI datacentres in the UK could cause the emission of up to 123m tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO₂) – about as much as generated by 2.7 million people – over the next 10 years.
That latest figure replaces a previous estimate – since deleted – that claimed emissions would reach a maximum of 0.142m tonnes of CO₂ in a single year.
There is increasing alarm at the carbon impact of AI and with calls to reduce global emissions to mitigate the climate emergency becoming increasingly urgent.
Patrick Galey, the head of investigations for the Global Witness climate campaign, said: “We have a handful of years until our carbon budget is exhausted."
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Is a climatarian diet better for the planet than veganism?
The food we consume has a massive effect on our planet. Agriculture takes up hal…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #MediterraneanVeganDiet #carbondioxide #carbonemissions #climatechange #Features #greenhousegases #Mediterranean #MediterraneanDiet #mediterraneanvegetarianrecipes #veganmediterraneandiet #veganism #vegetarianMediterraneanrecipes
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2606631/is-a-climatarian-diet-better-for-the-planet-than-veganism/ -
Is a climatarian diet better for the planet than veganism?
The food we consume has a massive effect on ou…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #mediterranean #MediterraneanDiet #MediterraneanFood #MediterraneanVeganDiet #carbondioxide #carbonemissions #climatechange #Features #greenhousegases #Mediterranean #mediterraneanvegetarianrecipes #veganmediterraneandiet #veganism #vegetarianMediterraneanrecipes
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2606631/is-a-climatarian-diet-better-for-the-planet-than-veganism/ -
Is a climatarian diet better for the planet than veganism? https://www.diningandcooking.com/2606631/is-a-climatarian-diet-better-for-the-planet-than-veganism/ #CarbonDioxide #CarbonEmissions #ClimateChange #diet #Features #GreenhouseGases #Mediterranean #MediterraneanDiet #MediterraneanVeganDiet #MediterraneanVegetarianRecipes #VeganMediterraneanDiet #veganism #VegetarianMediterraneanRecipes
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Study Finds Africa’s Forests Now Release More Carbon Than They Absorb
📰 Original title: Africa’s forests have flipped from carbon sink to carbon source
🤖 IA: It's not clickbait ✅
👥 Usuarios: It's not clickbait ✅View full AI summary: https://killbait.com/en/study-finds-africas-forests-now-release-more-carbon-than-they-absorb/?redirpost=5a00814d-0b64-472f-a3aa-69761a55008e
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Study Finds Africa’s Forests Now Release More Carbon Than They Absorb
📰 Original title: Africa’s forests have flipped from carbon sink to carbon source
🤖 IA: It's not clickbait ✅
👥 Usuarios: It's not clickbait ✅View full AI summary: https://killbait.com/en/study-finds-africas-forests-now-release-more-carbon-than-they-absorb/?redirpost=5a00814d-0b64-472f-a3aa-69761a55008e
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From biodiversity to carbon capture: Saving bison from extinction has brought big benefits to Europe
The European bison is making a comeback across the continent, bringing with it a wealth of wildlife benefits.…
#NewsBeep #News #Environment #AU #Australia #Biodiversity #CarbonEmissions #Ecosystem #NatureConservation #Rewilding #Science #wildlifeconservation
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/593067/ -
AI laws overlook environmental damage – here’s what needs to change
#AI #Environment #ClimateChange #Sustainability #TechEthics #BigTech #DataCenters #WaterCrisis #Ewaste #EcoJustice #CarbonEmissions #GreenTech #EnergyConsumption #AIRegulation #Regulation
https://the-14.com/ai-laws-overlook-environmental-damage-heres-what-needs-to-change/ -
"'The Cloud' emits somewhere in the vicinity of 2% of the world's carbon - that's about the same as the airline industry - with Australian data centres ranked among the worst in the world."
#JadeAmbrose, 2026
https://tv.lumbung.space/w/aebd157e-ad49-4ce6-b761-bd06fda6962d
So ... why is any organisation in Aotearoa *not* run by climate change ignorers still hosting online services offshore, especially in Oz? Including our government FFS!
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#talks #ConferenceTalks #ClimateChange #CarbonEmissions #DataCentres #NeighbourhoodFirst
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One Way or Another, Most of Our Electricity Comes From Solar Power
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/story/most-of-our-electricity-comes-from-solar-power/
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2 Weeks of Iran War Released More Carbon Emissions Than 84 Countries Do Yearly
Destroyed buildings were the top contributor, new research finds, with at least 20,000 units in Iran hit in the war. -
Human Activity Drives Unprecedented 20th-Century Fires in Tropical Peatlands
📰 Original title: Wildfires in carbon-rich tropical peatlands hit 2000-year high
🤖 IA: It's not clickbait ✅
👥 Usuarios: It's not clickbait ✅View full AI summary: https://killbait.com/en/human-activity-drives-unprecedented-20th-century-fires-in-tropical-peatlands/?redirpost=fe94afed-10fa-4819-8bb0-a2600ef36f12
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Human Activity Drives Unprecedented 20th-Century Fires in Tropical Peatlands
📰 Original title: Wildfires in carbon-rich tropical peatlands hit 2000-year high
🤖 IA: It's not clickbait ✅
👥 Usuarios: It's not clickbait ✅View full AI summary: https://killbait.com/en/human-activity-drives-unprecedented-20th-century-fires-in-tropical-peatlands/?redirpost=fe94afed-10fa-4819-8bb0-a2600ef36f12
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