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Anna Desmarais

Emissions from Big Tech companies rose 150% in 3 years as AI booms, UN report found

Four of the world’s biggest artificial intelligence (AI) companies saw the indirect carbon emissions of their work grow by over 150 percent in the last three years, according to a report from a United Nations agency for digital technolgoies. 

The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) tracked the emissions, energy use, and climate commitments of 200 leading digital companies between 2020 and 2023 using public databases. 

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