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Google pledges not to make custom software for oil and gas extraction | Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/...05/google-pledges-not-to-make-custom-software-for-oil-and-gas-extraction/
Google, Microsoft, and Amazon cloud divisions have sought oil and gas business.
Google says that it will not "build custom AI/ML algorithms to facilitate upstream extraction in the oil and gas industry," the company announced on Tuesday. This represents a small but significant win for climate activists.
Google's comment coincided with the release of a new Greenpeace report highlighting the role of the three leading cloud-computing services—Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services, and Microsoft Azure—in helping companies find and extract oil and gas. Greenpeace notes that extracting known fossil fuel reserves would already be sufficient to push the world over 2 degrees of warming. Uncovering additional reserves will ultimately lead to even more warming.
In short, none of the companies are ready to go as far as Greenpeace would like. But Google seems to be signaling a desire to reduce ties to the oil and gas sector over time, while Microsoft and Amazon show no inclination to do so.