Hyperscale data centers—the massive business-critical facilities that support robust, scalable applications and the operational lynchpins of big data-producing companies such as Google, Amazon, Facebook, IBM, and Microsoft—use a lot of energy and expend a sizable volume of greenhouse gases.
According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), global data center electricity use in 2021 was 220–320 TWh, or around 0.9–1.3% of global final electricity demand. This excludes energy used for cryptocurrency mining, which was 100–140 TWh in 2021.
Related: Energy Leaders Urged to Collaborate With Industrialists to Decarbonize ManufacturingAnd in terms of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, data centers and data transmission networks that underpin digitalization accounted for around 300 Mt CO2-eq (that is, the equivalent of 300 million metric tons of carbon dioxide) in…
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