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Google 's emissions grew 13 percent in 2023 over the year before .
Compared with its baseline year of 2019 , emissions have soared 48 percent .
Google cited artificial intelligence and the demand it puts on data centres, which require massive amounts of electricity, for last year’s growth.
Experts said the rapidly expanding data centres needed to power AI threaten the entire transition to clean electricity.
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