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A chart with Microsoft’s electricity consumption (in terawatt-hours) and their emissions (in million metric tons of CO2e) from FY 2020–23, as sourced from company reports. Microsoft’s financial year runs from July 1st to June 30th.
Training AI models requires a lot of compute. The data centers built to provide said compute are more power hungry than those providing traditional email or web services. In fact, the construction of these centers has accounted for 30% of the emissions increase between 2020 and 2023.