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

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

The company’s overall carbon footprint for 2025 came to about 14.5 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent. When comparing this to emissions by country, Google is somewhere between Ivory Coast and Panama at about 100th place. The carbon-free energy goal Google has been matching 100 percent of its electricity consumption with renewable energy purchases…

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Merger of Korean Cinema Chains Lotte and Megabox Collapses

Merger of Korean Cinema Chains Lotte and Megabox Collapses

The planned merger of Lotte Cinema and Megabox, South Korea’s second- and third-largest multiplex chains, has collapsed, ending a 14-month attempt to combine the two companies into the country’s biggest theatrical exhibitor. Lotte Shopping, the retail conglomerate that controls Lotte Cinema operator Lotte Cultureworks, disclosed in a regulatory filing that its memorandum of understanding with…

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