Data centres turn to renewable energy sources as power demand surges

A ChatGPT query needs nearly 10 times as much electricity to process as a Google Search, a study by Goldman Sachs report claims. With Artificial Intelligence (AI) gaining momentum and as an increasing number of data centres focus on catering to the AI workloads, analysts expect the power consumption by data centres to increase.

Players in the industry concur that with conventional power sources getting costlier every year, a lot of them would invest more in alternate power sources. Some of the players that Business Standard spoke to said that they see their renewable energy usage go up to 80 per cent of their total energy needs.