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Several reports have now been released about how on a global scale, data centers developed by technology companies such as Google and Microsoft are using more energy than the countries that use them to provide their people with a comfortable life.
In fact, Google itself released a report that showed a sharp increase in power consumption since 2019, but still shows that these data centers will still try to be powered by sustainable energy supplies by 2030.
However, Google's Chief Scientist Jeff Dean said that although the report details the electricity consumption of their data centers, it does not reflect the actual state of use of these server machines.
He said that it is true that the increase in electricity consumption due to AI is true, but, when viewed as a whole, the fraction of electricity consumption by this technology is actually smaller compared to other reasons.
Only, when this fraction is added to the data center's total power consumption, it may be mistaken as AI being the cause of the increase in electricity used.
He further said that machine learning and AI technology is seen to help Google in realizing their dream to reduce the use of electricity in their data centers, but for now, the development of algorithms and machine learning is needed to ensure that the AI system being developed can benefit the public in the future. front