Ketan Joshi

What does the real climate footprint of the biggest company on the planet look like?

Australia’s government announced months ago they aim to curb the fast-growing data centre industry’s risks to the power grid; namely impacts around emissions, power bills and grid reliability.

I wasn’t entirely sure what to expect from Google’s latest climate report, but holy hell, I did not expect this.

There’s a chance you saw this story; most likely on your social media feed.

This is a quasi-epilogue to my recent essay linking infrasound fears from wind power to the same around data centres.

“Ketan, do you know anything about this whole data centres / infrasound thing?”

A new report was just released by Australia’s grid operator that contains a very, very buried lede.

Australia’s National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Scheme is very, very useful collection of disclosures of energy consumption and emissions from large Australian companies and electricity generators.

This is an unedited (except for insertion of hyperlinks rather than references, and embedding a few images and posts instead of references, and fixing a few typos) copy of my submission to Australia’s inquiry into the taxation of gas.

Watch a video version of this blog post, here or below Not quite there yet, but soon it’ll be one year since a major blackout impacted Spain and Portugal – one of the biggest blackouts to ever hit Europe since the creation of the modern grid.

I know you already know the data centres built to power the generative AI software running on X are intensely harmful and wildly polluting, often in breach of rules and regulations.