AI surge to double data centre electricity demand by 2030: IEA
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At the current rate, data centres will consume about three percent of global energy by 2030, the report said.
According to the IEA, data centre electricity consumption will reach about 945 terawatt hours (TWH) by 2030.
“This is slightly more than Japan’s total electricity consumption today. AI is the most important driver of this growth, alongside growing demand for other digital services,” said the report.
One 100 megawatt data centre can use as much power as 100,000 households, the report said. But it highlighted that new data centres, already under construction, could use as much as two million households.
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“ don’t worry, we’ll offset some of the demand by restarting nuclear plants to prevent burning as much fossil fuel”
“Wait so we could have just had those running already rather than burning fossil fuels?”
“Noooo… because… uh… reasons”