{"id":25032,"date":"2024-02-29T18:46:07","date_gmt":"2024-02-29T17:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/?p=25032"},"modified":"2024-02-29T18:47:33","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T17:47:33","slug":"ai-and-its-10-billion-increase-in-energy-consumption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/2024\/02\/29\/ai-and-its-10-billion-increase-in-energy-consumption\/","title":{"rendered":"AI and its 10 million increase in energy consumption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Between 2010 and 2018, a worldwide increase of 550 % in the number of data center workloads and compute instances is estimated.<!--more--> Data centers and transmission networks together participate up to\u00a0<strong>1,5 %<\/strong>\u00a0on global energy consumption. They emit an amount of carbon dioxide comparable to the annual production of Brazil.<\/p>\n<p>Hyperscalers like Google , Microsoft and Amazon have committed to ambitious climate goals that aim to decarbonize their operations. Hyperscalers are large, highly optimized and efficient devices.<\/p>\n<p>However, the spread of AI poses a huge challenge to these goals. The power-intensive nature of graphics processing units (GPUs), which are necessary for training AI models, increases the pressure on power resources. (<em>Jennifer L, more at <a href=\"https:\/\/carboncredits.com\/carbon-countdown-ais-10-billion-rise-in-power-use-explodes-data-center-emission\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">carboncredits.com<\/span><\/a>)<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Between 2010 and 2018, a worldwide increase of 550 % in the number of data center workloads and compute instances is estimated.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uhlikova-stopa"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25032\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}