Artificial intelligence increases the demand for traditional fuel
The emissions associated with the energy sector are most likely in 2024, but the pace of its decline will slow down during the next decade, and this is due to a large part of it to the expansion of data centers that still depend on traditional fuel, according to the latest report on “new energy prospects” issued by “Bloomberg NF”.
Continuing dependence on traditional fuel
The report issued on April 15 indicated that renewable energy sources and storage technologies will contribute to securing more than half of the necessary electrical capacity in order to meet the increasing demand from data centers by 2035, while about two -thirds of the increase in electricity production from traditional fuel, such as coal and gas, will come, since data centers may extend the dependence on the current stations currently operating on coal and gas.
The global demand for electricity is expected to witness a great leap due to the use of artificial intelligence and the expansion of data centers, prompting technology companies to secure electrical supplies around the clock. Some companies have resorted to nuclear energy, while others in natural gas see an abundant and quickly available source to meet this request.
It is likely that this first year in which the world records a structural decline in energy emissions, that is, a decline caused by fundamental shifts, not from passing shocks such as the Corona quantum or the financial crisis in 2008. Bloomberg is expected to decrease the emissions 13% by 2035, but the increase in the number of data centers consumed for electricity will slow down the pace Return.
The report indicated that the cumulative carbon emissions will rise by 3.5 GGASAN during the next decade, equivalent to 10% of the total current global emissions, due to the additional use of electricity produced by traditional fuel in the areas of computing. It is expected that the United States and China are the largest contributor to this rise, a large difference from the rest of the countries.
The fog of the future scene
Meanwhile, the rise of artificial intelligence re -drawing the features of the electricity markets in the United States, as another report issued by “Bloomberg in NF” expected on April 15 that the share of database of total electricity demand from 3.5% is currently to 8.6% by 2035.
Amazon tops the list of 3GB databases in the United States, in addition to 12 GW, followed by “Microsoft”, “Meta” and “Google”, which belongs to Alphabet.
The report stated that the American companies have developed the most prominent models of huge artificial intelligence, which means that the largest part of the wide -ranging training processes of these models are based on the territory of the United States.
The major technology companies have invested for years in clean energy even before the boom of artificial intelligence and data centers, through agreements to purchase electricity from wind and solar farms.
According to the Bloomberg NF report on data centers, Amazon, Google, Meta and Microsoft were a party to about 70% of these agreements that were made in the United States last year, allowing it to build data centers connected to electrical networks that depend largely on traditional fuel, while continuing to claim that it reduces its carbon emissions.
While the “New Energy Prospects” report concluded that the average global temperature will rise by 2.6 degrees Celsius by 2100, analysts indicated that the world “is very close to slipping towards a path closer to 2.7 degrees Celsius.”
This estimate is based on the “Economic Transformation” scenario adopted by “Bloomberg NEF” in its modeling, which takes into account the changes and spread of technology prices, but it is supposed to maintain current policies without introducing new policies.
The report stated that the data centers “a great opportunity during the next decade” in terms of the growth of electricity demand.
However, the estimates of future demand from these facilities are unconfirmed and subject to change. In the United States, President Donald Trump’s administration promoted the Stargate project in the context of its efforts to expand data centers, and Trump has signed executive orders to expand the use of fossil fuels in support of the mutation of artificial intelligence. However, Microsoft, for example, has retracted a number of data centers ’projects around the world, in light of a more cautious review of its expansion plans.
