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Last year, nearly 40% of all power demand from global data centers came from facilities based in America, per a new report.
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Last year, nearly 40% of all power demand from global data centers came from facilities based in America, per a new report.
Excerpt from this story from Canary Media:
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Rising temperatures create a vicious cycle as demand for electricity leads to more greenhouse emissions
It is a vicious cycle – as the climate grows hotter, demand for air conditioning is booming and that is helping make the climate even hotter.
Air conditioning accounts for about a fifth of the total electricity used in buildings around the world. Much of that electricity comes from power stations giving off greenhouse gases, and to make matters worse, air conditioners can also leak hydrofluorocarbon refrigerants, greenhouse gases thousands of times more powerful than carbon dioxide over a 20-year period.
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International Energy Agency: Electricity consumption from data centers to double by 2030. (Heatmap AM)
The International Energy Agency published a big reportThursday on how the rise of artificial intelligence will affect energy demand over the next five years. The analysis finds that global electricity consumption from the data centers that power AI will more than double by 2030, and that the U.S. will be the key driver of this growth. “By the end of the decade, the country is set to consume more electricity for data centers than for the production of aluminium, steel, cement, chemicals, and all other energy-intensive goods combined,” the report said. Other key findings as they related to energy and climate:
Renewables — and especially wind and solar — can meet half of the expected growth in electricity demand from AI, but rising natural gas and coal generation will also be major power sources. “Natural gas and coal together are expected to meet over 40% of the additional electricity demand from data centres until 2030,” the report finds.
Carbon dioxide emissions from data centers are expected to peak by 2030 and decline slowly through 2035.
Climate concerns around AI “appear overstated,” but so do claims that AI will solve climate change. Existing AI solutions, if widely deployed, could cut far more emissions than data centers produce. But those cuts still wouldn’t be enough to reach net zero. AI “is not a silver bullet.”
AI will hike energy demand, but could also speed up innovation in new energy technologies if it receives enough investment and policy support.
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