{"id":139042,"date":"2025-04-14T07:50:59","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T04:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/climate-champion-or-catastrophe-can-ai-offset-its-own-growing-emissions\/"},"modified":"2025-04-14T07:50:59","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T04:50:59","slug":"climate-champion-or-catastrophe-can-ai-offset-its-own-growing-emissions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/climate-champion-or-catastrophe-can-ai-offset-its-own-growing-emissions\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate champion or catastrophe: Can AI \u2018offset\u2019 its own, growing emissions?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button \" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139042\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>Data centre electricity demand is predicted will rise to around 945 terawatt hours by 2030, more than the entire electricity consumption of Japan. Love it or hate it, artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming part of our everyday lives. From online shopping to searching the web, AI is evolving into a useful, time-saving tool for people and corporations alike.<\/p>\n<p>When it comes to climate change, AI is proving its usefulness there, too. At the UK\u2019s Cambridge University, researchers are using AI in everything from climate modelling to land use planning, and see it as a transformative tool for protecting nature. Researchers at Oxford University have created an AI tool that promises to make corporations&#8217; environmental conduct more transparent. Even Google has touted the benefits, developing various AI-powered tools to improve climate resilience.<\/p>\n<p>Despite all the potential for AI to have a positive impact on the climate crisis, there are concerns over its potentially significant contribution to greenhouse gas emissions. A new report from the International Energy Agency (IEA) shows that AI is driving a massive increase in electricity demand. Data centres, which form the backbone of AI systems, are projected to double their energy demand in the next five years.<\/p>\n<p>IEA projects that, by 2030, data centre electricity demand will rise to around 945 terawatt hours &#8211; that\u2019s more than the entire electricity consumption of Japan. However, the report also points out that AI has the potential to cut emissions elsewhere. It says that if it is adopted in the right ways, the carbon savings it accounts for could offset the additional emissions it generates.<\/p>\n<p>AI is one of the biggest stories in the energy world today,\u201d says IEA Executive Director Fatih Birol. \u201cBut until now, policy makers and markets lacked the tools to fully understand the wide-ranging impacts.\u201d AI requires large amounts of energy to train and run. The huge processing power required to support large language models comes from thousands of servers housed in data centres, some of which consume as much energy as a small country.<\/p>\n<p>Data centres are located all over the world, although the US leads with 5,381 facilities, around 40 per cent of the global market. Other countries with significant data centres include the UK, Germany, India, Australia, France and the Netherlands.<\/p>\n<p>The power consumption of these facilities is substantial. Some AI-focused data centres use as much electricity as two million households. In 2023, they accounted for around 1.5 per cent of the total global electricity consumption, but are set to consume a lot more in the coming years.<\/p>\n<p>Training AI requires a great deal of processor power, and therefore a lot of electricity. Research published in the Journal of Machine Learning found that training the popular OpenAI ChatGPT model consumed 1,287 megawatt hours of electricity, producing as much CO2 as 80 short-haul flights in Europe.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/green\/2025\/04\/11\/ai-climate-champion-catastrophe-carbon-emissions\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/green\/2025\/04\/11\/ai-climate-champion-catastrophe-carbon-emissions\">Euronews Green<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/environmental-news-en\/climate-champion-or-catastrophe-can-ai-offset-its-own-growing-emissions\/\">Climate champion or catastrophe: Can AI \u2018offset\u2019 its own, growing emissions?<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[3519,575,18546],"class_list":["post-139042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-ai","tag-environmental-news-en","tag-growing-emissions"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}