{"id":18897,"date":"2025-05-22T19:37:19","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T17:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/22\/ai-could-account-for-nearly-half-of-datacentre-power-usage-by-end-of-year\/"},"modified":"2025-05-22T19:37:19","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T17:37:19","slug":"ai-could-account-for-nearly-half-of-datacentre-power-usage-by-end-of-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/22\/ai-could-account-for-nearly-half-of-datacentre-power-usage-by-end-of-year\/","title":{"rendered":"AI could account for nearly half of datacentre power usage \u2018by end of year\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Analysis comes as energy agency predicts systems will need as much energy by end of decade as Japan uses today<\/p>\n<p>Artificial intelligence systems could account for nearly half of datacentre power consumption by the end of this year, analysis has revealed.<\/p>\n<p>The estimates by Alex de Vries-Gao, the founder of the Digiconomist tech sustainability website, came as the International Energy Agency forecast that AI would require almost as much energy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/apr\/10\/energy-demands-from-ai-datacentres-to-quadruple-by-2030-says-report\">by the end of this decade<\/a> as Japan uses today.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2025\/may\/22\/ai-data-centre-power-consumption\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/4ffc76c74bc5f4bc5d3cc86b5cd689d5a9282fc5\/911_0_4773_3819\/master\/4773.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=e46146cb61770496fa5a1e2c554eec1a\" title=\"AI could account for nearly half of datacentre power usage \u2018by end of year\u2019\" \/>Analysis comes as energy agency predicts systems will need as much energy by end of decade as Japan uses today<br \/>\nArtificial intelligence systems could account for nearly half of datacentre power consumption by the end of this year, analysis has revealed.<br \/>\nThe estimates by Alex de Vries-Gao, the founder of the Digiconomist tech sustainability website, came as the International Energy Agency forecast that AI would require almost as much energy by the end of this decade as Japan uses today. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Analysis comes as energy agency predicts systems will need as much energy by end of decade as Japan uses today Artificial intelligence systems could account for nearly half of datacentre power consumption by the end of this year, analysis has revealed. The estimates by Alex de Vries-Gao, the founder of the Digiconomist tech sustainability website, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/22\/ai-could-account-for-nearly-half-of-datacentre-power-usage-by-end-of-year\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">AI could account for nearly half of datacentre power usage \u2018by end of year\u2019<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":18898,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18897"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}