{"id":226323,"date":"2026-06-04T17:16:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T21:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/04\/energy-water-use-and-pollution-of-ai-and-data-centers-rival-most-countries\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T17:25:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T21:25:16","slug":"energy-water-use-and-pollution-of-ai-and-data-centers-rival-most-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/04\/energy-water-use-and-pollution-of-ai-and-data-centers-rival-most-countries\/","title":{"rendered":"Energy, water use and pollution of AI and data centers rival most countries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/science\/energy-water-use-and-pollution-of-ai-and-data-centers-rival-most-countries\">Energy, water use and pollution of AI and data centers rival most countries<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/science\/energy-water-use-and-pollution-of-ai-and-data-centers-rival-most-countries\">https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/science\/energy-water-use-and-pollution-of-ai-and-data-centers-rival-most-countries<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-04 17:16:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.pbs.org\">www.pbs.org<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Global Data Center Energy Use<\/strong>: Last year, global data centers used 448 trillion watt-hours of electricity, contributing significantly to global carbon emissions comparable to nations like Argentina.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Future Projections<\/strong>: The report forecasts that by 2030, data centers will account for nearly 3% of the world&#8217;s total electricity use, ranking sixth in power consumption globally.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Artificial Intelligence Impact<\/strong>: About 20% of the current energy consumption in data centers is due to AI, which is anticipated to rise to 40% by 2030 as AI becomes more prevalent.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Environmental Concerns<\/strong>: The environmental footprint of data centers, including their significant use of water and the resulting pollution, poses serious ecological risks as AI use increases.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Call for Efficiency and Transparency<\/strong>: Experts suggest efficiency improvements and reducing wordiness in AI queries to lessen energy demands. There&#8217;s also a call for greater transparency around the environmental impact of data centers and AI use.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Public vs Industry Perspective<\/strong>: While there&#8217;s growing recognition of the environmental impact of data centers, industry leaders argue that AI offers beneficial advancements despite its environmental costs.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Carbon Impact<\/strong>: Data center operations in 2022 resulted in about 208 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions, emphasizing the physical and environmental &#8220;costs&#8221; of advancing AI technology.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Strategies for Reduction<\/strong>: Users are encouraged to minimize the energy use of AI by being concise in their queries, which can noticeably reduce the energy consumption of AI operations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Energy, water use and pollution of AI and data centers rival most countries https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/science\/energy-water-use-and-pollution-of-ai-and-data-centers-rival-most-countries Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":226324,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/d3i6fh83elv35t.cloudfront.net\/static\/2026\/06\/2025-09-23T211123Z_1039058521_RC2UXGA99P1K_RTRMADP_3_TECH-OPENAI-TEXAS-1024x683.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-226323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226323"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":226325,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226323\/revisions\/226325"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}