🌎 AI works hard for you, but the earth is working even harder 🌎
In today's in-depth article, we take a look at how bad AI really is for the environment.
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Is AI bad for the environment? | Tuta
Most people don’t think twice when they ask ChatGPT a question or to summarize an email but they should. AI is working hard for us, but our planet is working even harder.Tuta
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in reply to Tuta • • •Bicester, UK: Plan, 7.000 new homes: stopped, not enough power
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Ireland rejected planned data centers from Microsoft and Amazon because the state-owned network operator fears a blackout
• 11 percent of Ireland's total electricity demand would already go to data centers
• Ireland's data centers consume more electricity than all urban households combined
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• Irish state grid operator Eirgrid estimates that by 2029, nearly 30 percent of Ireland's annual electricity demand will be accounted for by data centers.
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• Data center boom threatens Ireland's power grid
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Ireland’s datacentres overtake electricity use of all urban homes combined
Jillian Ambrose (The Guardian)Okuna
in reply to Okuna • • •• Server farms belonging to Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Meta required more electricity than Czechia in 2021
• All data centers worldwide consumed approximately as much electricity as Spain in 2022
• Data centers house cloud infrastructure and thus also AI systems
• The largest providers of AI systems are either cloud operators (Microsoft, Google, Amazon) or operate the systems for these three
• Meta, Google, and others are therefore trying to build their data centers in places where a lot of (green) energy is available (Iceland, Finland, Norway, etc.)
Okuna
in reply to Okuna • • •For at least 10 years, it will supply electricity to a nearby data center – at a fixed price that is 50 percent above the current electricity price
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• Microsoft: Damaged nuclear power plant for AI. Power plant in Pennsylvania was the site of the most severe meltdown and largest radiation leak in US history in 1979
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OpenAI asks the US for approval of energy-guzzling 5GW data centers, according to a report
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Microsoft braucht Atomkraftwerk für KI
Helmut Martin-Jung (Süddeutsche Zeitung)Okuna
in reply to Okuna • • •AI processors installed in 2023 (newly added) consume 7-11 hours (TWh), which is about 0.04% of global electricity consumption.
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• Goldman Sachs: A ChatGPT query requires almost ten times as much electricity as a Google search. Search
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• ChatGPT currently requires around 205,860,000 kilowatt hours of electricity per year => More than 70,000 four-person households could be supplied with electricity during the same period
• What's more, it's not just the chips and processors themselves that need electricity, but also their cooling systems: these consume a significant portion of the energy required by a data center – up to 40 percent, according to Intel
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Intel Newsroom Archive 2023 - Intel Newsroom
Jerry Casey (Intel Corporation)Tuta
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• Greenhouse gas emissions rose by 48% over the last five years
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• Google processes more than three trillion searches in a year = The electricity could power around 340,000 four-person households for a year
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• Llama 4 requires ten times more computing power than its predecessor
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500,000 tons of CO2 are to be removed from the air in Texas on behalf of Microsoft and pumped into the ground. A record.
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Google’s emissions climb nearly 50% in five years due to AI energy demand
Dan Milmo (The Guardian)Okuna
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• “AI plays a really important role in combating climate change,” said Kate Brandt, Google's Chief Sustainability Officer, in December, describing the technology as a “tipping point” for making significant progress on environmental goals.
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Accelerating climate action with AI
Yossi Matias (Google)Okuna
in reply to Tuta • • •to 1,000 TWh (terawatt hours) = approx. Japan's electricity demand
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• IEA: Data centers already accounted for 1 to 1.5% of global electricity consumption in 2022! Before the AI boom with the launch of ChatGPT at the end of the year
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• According to an analysis by The Guardian, the actual emissions from the company-owned data centers of Google, Microsoft, Meta, and Apple are likely to be 662% higher—or 7.62 times higher—than officially reported between 2020 and 2022.
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Data center emissions probably 662% higher than big tech claims. Can it keep up the ruse?
Guardian staff reporter (The Guardian)Okuna
in reply to Tuta • • •• The Californian company's existing data centers will require more than 24 TWh in 2023
According to the IEA, this corresponds to up to ten percent of the global electricity consumption of data centers and around 0.1 percent of the general global electricity demand
• Spent $1.1 billion to feed excess heat from its main data center in Finland back into households. This is how the company intends to achieve its climate goals after all.
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KI bedroht Klimaziele: Rechenzentren verbrauchen mehr Energie
Tristan Fincken (Computerwoche)Okuna
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• Goldman Sachs: Data center power demand will increase by 160% by 2030
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• Morgan Stanley: Predicts that emissions from data centers will rise to 2.5 billion tons of CO2 equivalent worldwide by 2030
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in reply to Tuta • • •4.5% of global energy production by 2030.
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• AI data centers could require more electricity than the Netherlands by 2027
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AI is likely to increase energy consumption and accelerate climate misinformation.
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• Demand for AI services will grow by 30-40% annually over the next 5-10 years. One estimate suggests that global AI-related energy consumption could be 10 times higher in 2027 than in 2023.
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Google’s emissions climb nearly 50% in five years due to AI energy demand
Dan Milmo (The Guardian)Okuna
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• Assumption: Google answers all search queries with artificial intelligence=> Ten times as much electricity – equivalent to the demand of around 3.4 million four-person households
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Azarilhⓥ
in reply to Tuta • • •"Another interesting finding is that Google who set the goal of being net-zero in carbon emissions by 2030, quietly removed the net-zero carbon goal from its website."
I love Google. /s
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