The global emissions due to AI have grown more than four times in 2024.
A pair of studies have been issued analyzing the effects of AI on our planet and the news is quite dark. Greenpeace generated by the production of semiconductors used in AI chips and find that there is a A fourfold increase in 2024S This analysis is completed with the help of publicly available data.
Many major chip manufacturers like NVIDIA rely on companies like Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co and SK Hynix Inc. For components of graphic processors and memory. The greater part of this production occurs in Taiwan, South Korea and Japan, where energy networks are relying mainly on fossil fuels. This reports some of the increase in global emissions. The organization also says that global electricity requirements for AI can survive a 170-fold increase by 2030.
Greenpeace’s ratings have made some worry that the AI ​​competition can derail global decarbonisation goals, S Non -profit organization recommends that governments in East Asia move on to renewable energy for the production of chips, but it seems that the opposite is happening. South Korea yes of gas generation. Taiwan uses the increased demand for AI energy as an excuse to expand liquid gas projects and network network.
Another survey of the International Energy Agency (IEA) S The analysis suggests that the consumption of energy from AI data centers can take into account half of the growth of electricity demand by 2030. In fact, the US economy may be about to consume more electricity for data processing than to produce all energy intensive goods in combination. This includes aluminum, steel, cement and chemicals.
The demand for electricity from global data centers can be doubled by 2030 to about 945 terawatt hours (TW). This is more than S This is a huge 30 times more than S
AI supporters say that ultimately huge energy needs will decrease as technology leads to scientific discoveries that accelerate innovation in fields such as and S However, this may be a lot of fat.
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