Google’s greenhouse gas emissions climbed nearly 50 percent in five years due to AI

Google’s greenhouse gas emissions climbed nearly 50 percent in five years due to AI

Google’s greenhouse gas emissions spiked by nearly 50 percent in the last five years thanks to energy-guzzling data centers required to power artificial intelligence, according to the company’s 2024 Environmental Report released on Tuesday. The report, which Google releases annually, shows the company’s progress towards meeting its self-proclaimed objective of becoming carbon neutral by 2030…

Scaling Argo Repo Server: How Increasing Replicas Solved Startup Delays

Scaling Argo Repo Server: How Increasing Replicas Solved Startup Delays

“Engineering in the Web” (Source: publicdomainpictures.net) Handling resource constraints is never easy. Technical issues, confusing configurations, and cost considerations make engineering the best use of resources challenging. We recently had one of our continuous deployment components, the Argo repo server, start to hit resource constraints. We will dive deeper into the component later in the