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These figures should trouble Google, which has the ambitious plan to cut its pollution in half compared to that 2019 baseline. The report says that surge is from powering energy-hungry data centres used to train AI models. As Google dives headfirst into integrating generative AI into more of its products, from search to Android smartphones to Google Home, the report says “reducing emissions may be challenging”, acknowledging the difficulty of juggling AI development and climate goals.
If you’re not Extremely Online or closely follow the happenings of Tom Hanks’s children, you may have missed the rise and fall of “white boy summer.” Let me explain. In the spring of 2021, Chet Hanks posted several Instagram videos about his upcoming “white boy summer,” a reference to Megan Thee Stallion’s banger Hot Girl Summer.
, says the “white boy summer” phrase has been co-opted by the Proud Boys, White Lives Matter and other extremist groups “to spread propaganda, recruit new members, and facilitate targeted hate campaigns.” In an Instagram post on Wednesday, Hanks condemned the use of the catchphrase, stating that twisting a “fun, playful and celebration of fly white boys who love beautiful queens of every race” into support for hate and bigotry was deplorable.