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AMAZON, GOOGLE EMISSIONS SPIKE AS AI DATA CENTERS BOOM

Amazon and Google reported significant year-over-year emissions increases in 2025, with Amazon up 16% and Google up 18%, as the two tech giants rapidly expand data center infrastructure to support AI demand.

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Amazon's emissions rose 16%+ YoY in 2025, driven by data center construction and delivery fuel, while Google's "ambition-based" emissions jumped 18% YoY in 2025 (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Amazon's emissions rose 16%+ YoY in 2025, driven by data center construction and delivery fuel, while Google'…

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Google’s AI buildout drove 37% increase in electricity use in 2025

Google tries balancing AI data center emissions with clean energy efforts.

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Munich-based nuclear fusion startup Proxima Fusion raised €411M led by trading firm XTX and UK-based East X at a €2.4B valuation, with participation from Google (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Munich-based nuclear fusion startup Proxima Fusion raised €411M led by trading firm XTX and UK-based East X a…

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Paris-based UMA, founded by ex-Tesla Optimus scientist Rémi Cadene and ex-Google DeepMind researcher Pierre Sermanet, demos its Northstar AI humanoid robot (Benoit Berthelot/Bloomberg)

Benoit Berthelot / Bloomberg: Paris-based UMA, founded by ex-Tesla Optimus scientist Rémi Cadene and ex-Google DeepMind…

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Internal documents: Amazon is working on an Alexa project, codenamed Moonraker, to handle more complex, multistep tasks, projecting $100M+ in GPU costs in 2026 (Eugene Kim/Business Insider)

Eugene Kim / Business Insider: Internal documents: Amazon is working on an Alexa project, codenamed Moonraker, to handle…

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