What are the environmental impacts of artificial intelligence?
Union of Concerned Scientists
JUNE 25, 2025
electricity consumption and projections to 2028 fall within 6.7% All these estimates come from the 2024 United States Data Center Energy Usage Report. As GPUs are not perfectly efficient, a substantial portion of the energy is turned into heat. In 2023, it increased to 4.4% (176 TWh) of the total U.S.
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