The impact of the rise of data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.windowscentral.com/artificial-intelligence” data-auto-tag-linker=”true” data-before-rewrite-redirect=”https://www.windowscentral.com/tag/artificial-intelligence” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.windowscentral.com/artificial-intelligence”>AI on the environment is a very real concern, and it’s not one that’s going away in a hurry. Especially not when Google’s planned new datacenter in the UK looks set to emit the same quantity of Carbon Dioxide in a year as hundreds of flights every week would.
It comes via a report from data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/15/google-datacentre-kent-co2-thurrock-uk-ai” data-url=”https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/15/google-datacentre-kent-co2-thurrock-uk-ai” target=”_blank” referrerpolicy=”no-referrer-when-downgrade” data-hl-processed=”none”>The Guardian, which has seen the plans for the new facility and the very real carbon impact assessment.
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According to the report, the datacenter — which, as yet, has not been given planning…
