One of the most important methods for the world to deal with climate change is through renewable energy. However, the ability to renew about a permanent future is threatened by the environmental impact of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence. These technologies depend on data centers, whose energy is constantly challenging the ability of renewable sources to meet thirst demand.
To unlock the actual capacity of renewable energy, it is necessary to meet the energy challenge presented by the data centers. This has inspired some people to detect new ways to generate electricity, such as small modular reactor-nuclear reactor on a scale that are designed to gather and be easier to collect and transport at places with additional grid capacity. But for a permanent long -term solution, energy producers, distributors and consumers feel that the way changes will be required. Instead of constantly trying to meet an energy requirement, one step towards a ‘datantric perspective’ will have a steps towards power use in the hearts of the decisions around power generation and consumption. In other words, to ensure that renewable energy remains viable, the discourse about energy infection should focus on highlighting, regulating and limiting the data-center effect in the discourse.
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Technologies that are becoming part of daily life – such as large language models and automated vehicles – all require data centers to store large amounts of information. These global data centers consumed about 1% or 460 terravat hours of global electricity in 2024, which is almost coming to the power consumed by residential houses globally. In the United States, it is estimated that the world has the largest number of data centers, the centers consumed 4.4% of all American electricity in 2024, a figure expected to increase by 12% by 2028.
The use of electricity by data centers will continue to grow at the ever increasing rate-and will follow its global carbon footprint. A 2022 study found that among information communication technologies, data centers are the fastest growing in carbon footprint (D. Al Case At al. J. Clean. Hurt, 371133633; 2022,
