for more of this energy hungry infrastructure. also on the show, we re going to get the view from the us tech giant ibm. yeah, they ve seen their demand for al skyrocket. so what are they doing to cut down on their carbon emissions? wherever you rejoining me from around the world, once again, a big hello and a warm welcome to the show. artificial intelligence. yep, ai. it is everywhere nowadays. and the big tech companies like google, meta, microsoft, and now apple, they re muscling in to be at the head of the ai race, unveiling ever more sophisticated chat bots and other machine learning tools. but one aspect of the ai race that s perhaps not talked about as much is the impact on the environment. these language models, like chatgpt, are some of the most energy guzzling technologies. they need vast data centres to store the amount of data required to train the chat bots. so let me just show you some of the numbers. emissions from global cloud computing account for around 2.1%
German chemicals giant BASF is to take a 49% stake in a planned offshore windfarm being built in the North Sea by Sweden's Vattenfall power generator, the two companies announced on Monday. BASF, one of the world's largest chemicals producers, will own half the electricity generated by Nordlicht 1 and 2 for use at its production sites in Europe. Its Ludwigshafen headquarters on the Rhine in Germany will benefit in particular. Vattenfall is to build the windfarms, raising the renewables proportio