UN Report Warns AI Data Centers Could Double Water Use by 2030
The report urges disclosure and efficiency rules as AI workloads are projected to rise from 20% to 40% of data-center energy use by 2030.
- Global data centers consumed 448 trillion watt-hours of electricity last year, producing about 208 million tons of carbon dioxide and using 1.2 trillion gallons of water.
- By 2030, data center energy use is projected to nearly double to 935 trillion watt-hours, accounting for nearly 3% of global electricity consumption, with AI expected to make up 40% of this usage.
- Artificial Intelligence operational requests account for approximately 90% of AI's power consumption, with GPT handling 2.5 billion prompts daily.
- Reducing the word count in AI queries by 30% could cut AI energy use by 25%.
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