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Data center emissions probably 662% higher than big tech claims (www.theguardian.com)
 
 
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The original was posted on /r/worldnews by /u/atdoru on 2024-09-17 09:17:19+00:00.

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Data center emissions likely 662% higher than big tech claims. Can it keep up the ruse? (www.theguardian.com)
 
 

Big tech has made some big claims about greenhouse gas emissions in recent years. But as the rise of artificial intelligence creates ever bigger energy demands, it’s getting hard for the industry to hide the true costs of the data centers powering the tech revolution.

According to a Guardian analysis, from 2020 to 2022 the real emissions from the “in-house” or company-owned data centers of Google, Microsoft, Meta and Apple are likely about 662% – or 7.62 times – higher than officially reported.

Amazon is the largest emitter of the big five tech companies by a mile – the emissions of the second-largest emitter, Apple, were less than half of Amazon’s in 2022. However, Amazon has been kept out of the calculation above because its differing business model makes it difficult to isolate data center-specific emissions figures for the company.

As energy demands for these data centers grow, many are worried that carbon emissions will, too. The International Energy Agency stated that data centers already accounted for 1% to 1.5% of global electricity consumption in 2022 – and that was before the AI boom began with ChatGPT’s launch at the end of that year.

AI is far more energy-intensive on data centers than typical cloud-based applications. According to Goldman Sachs, a ChatGPT query needs nearly 10 times as much electricity to process as a Google search, and data center power demand will grow 160% by 2030. Goldman competitor Morgan Stanley’s research has made similar findings, projecting data center emissions globally to accumulate to 2.5bn metric tons of CO2 equivalent by 2030.

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Data center emissions likely 662% higher than big tech claims. Can it keep up the ruse? (www.theguardian.com)
 
 
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The original was posted on /r/france by /u/Ed_Dantesk on 2024-09-16 11:49:21+00:00.

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Data center emissions likely 662% higher than big tech claims. Can it keep up the ruse? Emissions from in-house data centers of Google, Microsoft, Meta and Apple may be 7.62 times higher than official (www.theguardian.com)
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Data center emissions probably 662% higher than big tech claims. Can it keep up the ruse? | Technology | The Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
 
 

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