Google’s greenhouse gas emissions have risen nearly 50 percent over the past five years, largely because of its data centers empowers artificial intelligence, according to the company’s 2024 Environmental Report. Despite this additional challenge, the report shows the company’s progress toward its self-proclaimed goal of becoming carbon neutral by 2030.
Using AI features (let alone training models) consumes a lot of energy. In 2023, AI startup Hugging Face and Carnegie Mellon University researchers found that creating a single image using artificial intelligence could use as much energy as charging a smartphone.
Google has many AI projects on the go. Like Gemini, it uses technology to add, along with generative AI tools more than 100 languages to translation services. And there is rumored AI chatbots.
According to the report, Google said it expects total greenhouse gas emissions to increase “before falling toward our absolute emissions reduction target,” without explaining what that reduction would entail.
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Three miles of I-94 will have special sensors and communications equipment.
Alphabet-backed startup Cavnue has begun building a smart highway as part of a new pilot project for smart highways. The new smart road is a long-track system designed to alert both the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) and drivers of potential problems ahead. It is hoped that the project will help to eliminate traffic jams and even prevent accidents. The freeway pilot program is located between Ann Arbor and Detroit, Michigan, and plans to extend the smart freeway 40 miles in six phases in the future to connect both cities.
If the future of drone sales looks bleak…
With the US banning its hyper-popular drones, DJI is turning to something very different. Enter Avinox Drive, an e-bike motor system that will challenge dominant players like Bosch and Shimano. The Avinox system, at least on paper, outperforms some popular systems from these competitors thanks to lower weight, extra torque and higher capacity batteries. However, DJI won’t be making a bike, so let’s see what it looks like. The system will first appear with new bike brand Amflow, which is introducing a new PL model weighing 19.2 kg (42 lb) – the low-end for electric mountain bikes (eMTB).
Fortunately, it’s not a 10-episode gritty drama.
The latest title to join the Netflix Games roster is a modern remake minesweeper, An ancient time killer on Windows PCs of the 90s. The classic computer puzzle game has been reimagined with an international setting that literally tasks the player with searching for underwater mines.
