In an interview at Fortune’s Brainstorm Tech conference, Dean emphasized that while AI is a rapidly growing workload, it currently represents “only a small portion of total energy consumption” in data centers.
Google’s latest environmental report showed that CO2 emissions in 2023 are expected to increase by 13% from the previous year and 48% from 2019 levels. The company attributes this to increased energy consumption in its data centers and emissions in its supply chain. However, Dean insists that AI is being unfairly blamed because the rise of AI computing makes a minimal contribution to overall emissions compared to other factors.
Source: Ferra
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