The growth in demand for AI could come at a cost to Europe’s decarbonization goals as the specialized chips used by firms like Nvidia are expected to…
The growth in demand for AI could come at a cost to Europe's decarbonization goals as the specialized chips used by firms like Nvidia are expected to result in a rise in energy use of already power-hungry data centers.
The boom in artificial intelligence is ushering in an environmentally conscious shift in how data centers operate, as European developers face pressure to lower the water temperatures of their energy-hungry facilities to accommodate the higher-powered chips of firms such as tech giantfor data centers by 2030, research from Goldman Sachs shows — an increase that could come at a cost to Europe's decarbonization goals, as the specialized chips used by AI firms are expected to hike the energy...
Michael Winterson, chair of the European Data Center Association , warned that lowering water temperatures will eventually"fundamentally drive us back to an unsustainable situation that we were in 25 years ago.""The problem we've got with the chipmakers is AI is now a space race run by the American market where land rights, energy access and sustainability are relatively low on the pecking order, and where market domination is key," Winterson told CNBC.
Winterson said that lowering water temperatures is"fundamentally incompatible" with the EU's recently launched Energy Efficiency Directive, which established a dedicated data base for data centers of a certain size to publicly report on their power consumption. The EUDCA has has been lobbying Brussels to consider these sustainability concerns.
Schneider Electric's customers that are deploying Nvidia's Blackwell GB200 super chip are asking for water temperatures of 20-24 degrees Celsius or between 68 and 75 degrees Fahrenheit, Carlini said. "There's a big push to deliver, but at the same time, when you go to scale, you will want to have the ability to choose, to be economical and not sacrifice too much. Power efficiency is important for the running costs. It's always a high priority," Korolenko said.
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