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Fortune
Sharon Goldman

Big Tech is racing to build AI data centers—just as Accenture warns carbon emissions could surge 11x

Data Center Alley in Sterling, Virginia (Credit: Pete Kiehart/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

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As an early-summer heat wave blanketed my home state of New Jersey last week, it felt like perfect timing to stumble across a sobering new prediction from Accenture: AI data centers’ carbon emissions are on track to surge 11-fold by 2030.

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