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jamii 10 hours ago

> The AI built-out is by far the fastest growing energy consumer in the world, and they’re being built with fossil fuels, or drawing green energy demand away from replacing the fossil fuels depended on by other industries.

This paragraph links to the IEA report which does indeed call datacenters the fastest growing energy consumer, but also says:

> Despite rapid growth, data centres remain a relatively small part of the overall power system, rising from about 1% of global electricity generation today to 3% in 2030, accounting for less than 1% of total global CO2 emissions.

For scale, beef production is about 9% of total greenhouse gas emission.