Datacenters to emit 3x more carbon dioxide because of genAI

Datacenters to emit 3x more carbon dioxide because of genAI is part of the sustainability in HPC discussion.

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Microsoft’s CO2 emissions rocketed 29.1 percent from the 2020 baseline, but much of this was due to indirect emissions (Scope 3) from the construction of more datacenters¹

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60 percent of this can be attributed to the power requirements of the facilities¹

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reforestation projects to be key beneficiaries¹

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1. Datacenters to emit 3x more carbon dioxide because of genAI ↩ ↩² ↩³