Startups race to curb data centre energy use amid AI boom
Update: 2024-09-17
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Data centres gobble up roughly 2% of global electricity, which translates to around 1% of energy-related greenhouse gas emissions. Streaming Netflix, storing stuff in the cloud, and meeting up on Zoom are just some of the online activities fuelling machines’ appetite for energy. But perhaps the biggest culprit of all is artificial intelligence. AI models require immense amounts of computational power to train and run, particularly for machine learning and deep learning tasks. Consequently, the International Energy Agency (IEA) predicts energy use from data centres will double by 2026. Either way you slice it, data centre energy use is a…
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