Sharing this article from the Financial Times, the second of an ongoing three-part series on the environmental impact of the AI industry (part 1, part 3 out next week). This week’s post highlights some interesting points:
- Almost 1/5 of the gas power capacity in development in the US will be used to power data centres.
- IEA data shows that for the next half decade, more than 50% of data centre power will be from fossil fuels.
- In Ireland, data centre power demand took up more than 1/5 of the whole country’s supply, and it’s expected to take up as much as 1/3 by next year.