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Google is opening an AI hub in oil-rich Saudi Arabia
The new AI hub will support research into Arab language AI models and “Saudi-specific AI applications.”
Google might be lagging in its climate goals, but that isn’t stopping the tech giant from building a new AI-focused datacenter in fossil fuel-dependent Saudi Arabia. Google said in 2020 that it would stop developing algorithms for oil and gas production and in 2021 committed to cutting its emissions in half by the end of the decade. But given fossil fuels’ central role in the Saudi economy, it’s possible that AI algorithms run out of the datacenter will be applied to oil and gas production.
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