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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Dan Milmo Global technology editor

AI could account for nearly half of datacentre power usage ‘by end of year’

Data centre with wires hanging out
Servers in a datacentre in northern France. Photograph: Sameer Al-Doumy/AFP/Getty

Artificial intelligence systems could account for nearly half of datacentre power consumption by the end of this year, analysis has revealed.

The estimates by Alex de Vries-Gao, the founder of the Digiconomist tech sustainability website, came as the International Energy Agency forecast that AI would require almost as much energy by the end of this decade as Japan uses today.

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