{"id":238895,"date":"2026-06-30T09:31:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T13:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/30\/data-centres-emitting-more-co2-than-thought-study\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T09:45:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T13:45:10","slug":"data-centres-emitting-more-co2-than-thought-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/30\/data-centres-emitting-more-co2-than-thought-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Data centres emitting more CO2 than thought: study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/science\/articles\/data-centres-emitting-more-co2-133117923.html\">Data centres emitting more CO2 than thought: study<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/science\/articles\/data-centres-emitting-more-co2-133117923.html\">https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/science\/articles\/data-centres-emitting-more-co2-133117923.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-30 09:31:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.yahoo.com\">www.yahoo.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here is a polite and respectful summary of the provided information, adhering to the Media Outlets Policy:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; A recent study by Allianz Trade highlights the significant carbon footprint of data centres driven by the artificial intelligence boom, estimating emissions at 286 million tonnes of CO2 in 2025.<br \/>\n&#8211; These emission levels are 57% higher than previously estimated by the International Energy Agency.<br \/>\n&#8211; AI alone accounts for 15-20% of electricity consumption in data centres, and this share is projected to increase to 40% by 2030.<br \/>\n&#8211; Without measures to decarbonize power grids, data centre emissions could more than double by 2030, leading to substantial climate damages.<br \/>\n&#8211; The study suggests that without significant changes, annual climate damages would rise from $68 billion currently to $154 billion by 2030.<br \/>\n&#8211; Data centres also face significant water consumption challenges, projected to require 1.3 to 1.8 trillion litres of water annually by 2030.<br \/>\n&#8211; Emissions from data centres depend on the source of electricity; regions with decarbonized power, like Norway and Sweden, see lower CO2 emissions compared to AI-driven heavyweights like the United States and China.<\/p>\n<p>For more detailed insights, it&#8217;s recommended to refer directly to Allianz Trade&#8217;s full report.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Data centres emitting more CO2 than thought: study https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/science\/articles\/data-centres-emitting-more-co2-133117923.html Publish Date: 2026-06-30 09:31:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":238896,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/os\/en\/afp.com\/ce67068665bc4affd51954ed56ce790a","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-238895","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\/238895"}],"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=238895"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238897,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238895\/revisions\/238897"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}