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The Star
05-06-2025
- Business
- The Star
Tech giants' indirect emissions rose 150% in three years as AI expands, UN agency says
A visitior stands near a logo of Amazon during the annual Retail Leadership Summit in Mumbai, India, February 27, 2025. REUTERS/Hemanshi Kamani/File Photo GENEVA (Reuters) -Indirect carbon emissions from the operations of four of the leading AI-focused tech companies, Amazon, Microsoft, Alphabet and Meta, rose on average by 150% from 2020-2023, as they had to use more power for energy-demanding data centres, a United Nations report said on Thursday. The use of artificial intelligence is driving up global indirect emissions because of the vast amounts of energy required to power data centres, the report by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the U.N. agency for digital technologies, said. Indirect emissions include those generated by purchased electricity, steam, heating and cooling consumed by a company. Amazon's operational carbon emissions grew the most at 182% in 2023 compared to three years before, followed by Microsoft at 155%, Meta at 145% and Alphabet at 138%, according to the report. The ITU tracked the greenhouse gas emissions of 200 leading digital companies between 2020 and 2023. Meta, which owns Facebook and WhatsApp, pointed Reuters to its sustainability report that said it is working to reduce emissions, energy and water used to power its data centres. The other companies did not respond immediately to requests for comment. As investment in AI increases, carbon emissions from the top-emitting AI systems are predicted to reach up to 102.6 million tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (tCO2) per year, the report stated. The data centres that are needed for AI development could also put pressure on existing energy infrastructure. "The rapid growth of artificial intelligence is driving a sharp rise in global electricity demand, with electricity use by data centres increasing four times faster than the overall rise in electricity consumption," the report found. It also highlighted that although a growing number of digital companies had set emissions targets, those ambitions had not yet fully translated into actual reductions of emissions. (Reporting by Olivia Le Poidevin; Editing by Aidan Lewis)
Reuters
10-04-2025
- Politics
- Reuters
Canadian, wanted for 2008 Mumbai attacks, arrives in India after US extradition
People light candles during a vigil at a memorial to mark the 13th anniversary of the November 26, 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, in Mumbai, India. November 26, 2021. REUTERS/Hemanshi Kamani/File Photo Purchase Licensing Rights, opens new tab Summary Rana extradited to India for 2008 Mumbai attack involvement It's the first such US transfer to India in a terrorism case Rana previously sentenced in US for aiding Lashkar-e-Taiba US Supreme Court rejected challenges to extradition NEW DELHI, April 10 (Reuters) - A Pakistani-born Canadian businessman accused of helping to orchestrate the 2008 attacks in Mumbai, one of India's deadliest, arrived in New Delhi on Thursday after the U.S. extradited him in the first such transfer in a terrorism case. Tahawwur Rana, 64, a doctor-turned-businessman, was extradited in connection with the November 2008 Mumbai attacks that killed more than 160 people. The Reuters Tariff Watch newsletter is your daily guide to the latest global trade and tariff news. Sign up here. "The National Investigation Agency on Thursday successfully secured the years of sustained and concerted efforts to bring the key justice," said NIA, India's anti-terror agency. He was accompanied back by Indian security agencies after his petitions challenging the extradition were rejected by the U.S. Supreme Court. Rana's extradition is a "great success" of Prime Minister Narendra Modi government's diplomacy, Indian Home Minister Amit Shah said on Wednesday. "It is the responsibility of the Indian government to bring back all those who have abused the land and people of India," he posted on X. TRUMP ANNOUNCED TRANSFER India formally sought Rana's custody in June 2020, and President Donald Trump announced Rana's transfer in February this year during a joint press conference with Modi in Washington. Rana was sentenced to 14 years in prison in the U.S. in 2013 for providing support to Lashkar-e-Taiba, the Pakistani Islamist group that India says was responsible for the 2008 attacks. "As far as our record indicates, he (Rana) did not even apply for renewal for his Pakistani-origin documents for the last two decades," Shafqat Ali Khan, a spokesperson for Pakistan's foreign ministry, said at a media briefing on Thursday. Rana's lawyer has said that Rana was a "good man and got sucked into something." Over the course of three days in November 2008, ten heavily armed attackers targeted major landmarks across Mumbai, including two luxury hotels, a Jewish centre and the main train station, killing 166 people. India has said Pakistan's Lashkar-e-Taiba, which the U.S. State Department has designated a terrorist organisation, orchestrated the attacks. Pakistan denies supporting extremist activities. Rana was also found guilty in June 2011 of conspiring to attack a Danish newspaper, a plot hatched by the militant group that was never carried out. Reporting by Rupam Jain and Shivam Patel; Writing by Surbhi Misra; editing by Shilpa Jamkhandikar and Bernadette Baum Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles., opens new tab
