July 17, 2024--Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Google and its parent company, Alphabet Incorporated (NASDAQ:GOOGL) (Mountain View, California), have made environmental sustainability a core value of their operations, but the rapid growth in data-center demand is making its goals harder to achieve. The tech titan recently announced its global greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions increased in 2023 from 2022, as artificial intelligence (AI) and other developing technologies have proven taxing on the power grid.

Industrial Info is tracking more than $22 billion worth of active and planned data-center projects from Google across the U.S., more than $4.6 billion of which is attributed to projects already under construction. In a presentation to investors, Google noted that its fuel-efficient routing technology is estimated to have reduced its GHG emissions by more than 2.9 million metric tons. Nonetheless, the company acknowledged its global GHG emissions in 2023 were 14.3 million tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) equivalent, which is a 13% increase from 2022 and a 48% increase from its 2019 target base year.