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According to a Guardian analysis, from 2020 to 2022 the real emissions from the “in-house” or company-owned data centers of Google, Microsoft, Meta and Apple are likely about 662% —or 7.62 times higher than officially reported.

Amazon is the largest emitter of the big five tech companies by a mile —the emissions of the second-largest emitter, Apple, were less than half of Amazon’s in 2022. However, Amazon has been kept out of the calculation above because its differing business model makes it difficult to isolate data center-specific emissions figures for the company.

The International Energy Agency stated that data centers already accounted for 1% to 1.5% of global electricity consumption in 2022 —and that was before the AI boom began with ChatGPT’s launch at the end of that year.

According to Goldman Sachs, a ChatGPT query needs nearly 10 times as much electricity to process as a Google search, and data center power demand will grow 160% by 2030. 

Goldman competitor Morgan Stanley’s research has made similar findings, projecting data center emissions globally to accumulate to 2.5bn metric tons of CO2 equivalent by 2030. 



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