Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt suggested last week that the company’s climate targets are essentially hopeless in light of the rise of power-intensive artificial intelligence (AI) technology, Axios reported. Schmidt shared his view during a conference last week in Washington, D.C., that Google’s emissions goals, which include reaching net-zero carbon emissions across its operations by 2030, will not be met because, according to Axios, the data centers that will power AI technologies will consume massive volumes of electricity. In a July report, Google disclosed that its corporate emissions hav…