How AI could help – or hurt – Asia’s energy future - The Business Times
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ARTIFICIAL intelligence is one of the world’s fastest-growing sources of demand for electricity.
ARTIFICIAL intelligence is one of the world’s fastest-growing sources of demand for electricity.
Between 2025 and 2030, data centres for AI are projected to double their share of global electricity consumption to around 3 per cent. That is a 30-fold increase since the start of the decade.
Currently, nearly two-thirds of the power that feeds AI comes from fossil fuels. Left unchecked, AI’s growth will lock in a new wave of carbon-emitting energy systems at exactly the moment when climate change and the global fuel crisis point to the urgent need to phase them out.
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