Paradox of AI's energy consumption

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AI data centers are major energy consumers but these centers also stand to ultimately share solutions for sustainable energy consumption.
Our Lee Eun-jin covers this paradox.

A war between humans and AI
Science-fiction movies address various approaches, but the massive amount of electricity AI consumes is a real issue.
Humanity blocks the sun to cut off AI's power supply,
then, in retaliation, AI starts using humans as their power source like batteries.
A single question asked of Chat GPT-4 uses enough electricity to power a 10-watt LED bulb for 3 minutes.
Currently, data centers for AI account for 1-point-5 percent of the world's total electricity consumption.
On this path, data centers will match the annual electricity consumption of all of Japan by 2030.
On top of the massive energy consumption, cooling the GPU chips of the data centers requires hundreds of thousands of tons of water, which also has negative impacts on the environment.


"What I'm most worried about is that we're building an enormous infrastructure for artificial intelligence that is extremely energy and water-intensive, without looking at the very real downsides in terms of the climate impacts."

The Davos Forum published a report in January of this year titled "Artificial Intelligence's Energy Paradox."
It projected that AI's electricity consumption will increase by an average of 50 percent annually from 2023 to 2030.
Google has pledged to nearly eliminate carbon emissions by 2030, but since 2019, its emissions have increased by 50%.
Microsoft, too, is going in the opposite direction of its original reduction goals.

"The carbon neutrality plans of global leaders in AI competition, like Microsoft and Google, have derailed due to the growing competition of generative AI."

The paradox is that AI also has the potential to be a problem-solver for the climate crisis by analyzing energy usage patterns to improve efficiency or optimizing traffic flows to reduce carbon emissions.
Ultimately, if AI can improve its cognitive capabilities to operate in an environmentally friendly way, it could become an opportunity for humanity.
Lee Eunjin, Arirang News.

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2025-07-01, 17:00 (KST)