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Data center emissions probably 662% higher than big tech claims
Emissions from in-house data centers of Google, Microsoft, Meta and Apple may be 7.62 times higher than official figures
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. 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. Goldman competitor Morgan Stanley ’s research has made similar findings, projecting data center emissions globally to accumulate to 2.5bn metric tons of CO 2 equivalent by 2030.
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