{
  "title": "Compute in the 2024 report",
  "report_year": 2024,
  "period": "Historical snapshot: October 2024. Dates and populations are specified per row.",
  "methodology": "Research-paper usage is not market share. Company emissions cover activities beyond AI, so the reported changes cannot be attributed wholly to AI workloads. Forward projections elsewhere in the deck remain forecasts.",
  "source_deck": "https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1GmZmoWOa2O92BPrncRcTKa15xvQGhq7g4I4hJSNlC0M/edit",
  "web_edition_date": "2026-10-10",
  "rows": [
    {
      "measure": "NVIDIA research-paper usage",
      "value": "11x peers combined",
      "definition": "Compute Index ratio in the 2024 report; based on hardware use identified in research papers.",
      "printed_slide": 93,
      "pdf_page": 94,
      "source_url": "https://www.stateof.ai/State-of-AI-Report-2024.pdf#page=94"
    },
    {
      "measure": "Google greenhouse gas emissions",
      "value": "48% above 2019",
      "definition": "Change cited from Google’s 2024 Environmental Report, across the company.",
      "printed_slide": 167,
      "pdf_page": 168,
      "source_url": "https://www.stateof.ai/State-of-AI-Report-2024.pdf#page=168"
    },
    {
      "measure": "Microsoft carbon emissions",
      "value": "30% above 2020",
      "definition": "Company-wide change cited by the report; not an estimate of AI-only emissions.",
      "printed_slide": 167,
      "pdf_page": 168,
      "source_url": "https://www.stateof.ai/State-of-AI-Report-2024.pdf#page=168"
    }
  ]
}