Google Rolls Out New Tools to Fight Climate Change
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Google is enhancing search results to help people make climate-friendly decisions about electric vehicles, heat pumps, and AC units.
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The company is expanding tools to reduce emissions from aviation by avoiding contrails and to cut pollution from vehicles with AI traffic light management.
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Google aims to mitigate climate impacts by providing disaster warnings for floods, heat, and wildfires using AI and satellite imagery.
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The tech giant is adding solar planning capabilities and surface reflectivity data to Google Earth to help cities optimize renewable energy.
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Google says its data centers are increasingly efficient but acknowledges challenges in predicting AI's future energy demands.
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