{"id":1012720,"date":"2026-06-06T09:39:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T04:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1012720"},"modified":"2026-06-06T09:55:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T04:25:42","slug":"ai-could-use-3-of-worlds-electricity-as-much-water-as-1-3-billion-people-by-2030-un-report-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/06\/ai-could-use-3-of-worlds-electricity-as-much-water-as-1-3-billion-people-by-2030-un-report-warns\/","title":{"rendered":"AI could use 3% of world\u2019s electricity, as much water as 1.3 billion people by 2030, UN report warns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One argument often used to quell concerns about the rising energy and resource demand of data centres is that artificial intelligence (AI) models will need less in the future as they improve and become more efficient. <\/p>\n<p>But this seemingly logical thinking is a trap, according to a new United Nations report that quantifies the environmental costs of AI. <\/p>\n<p>The report estimates that by 2030, AI\u2019s energy use could double to consume 3 per cent of the world\u2019s electricity, produce emissions equal to the UK and deplete more water for cooling than the annual drinking water needs of the global population.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One argument often used to quell concerns about the rising energy and resource demand of data centres is that artificial intelligence (AI) models will need less in the future as they improve and become more efficient. But this seemingly logical thinking is a trap, according to a new United Nations report that quantifies the environmental costs of AI. The report estimates that by 2030, AI\u2019s energy use could double to consume 3 per cent of the world\u2019s electricity, produce emissions equal to the UK and deplete more water for cooling than the annual drinking water needs of the global population.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1012720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1012720"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1012736,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012720\/revisions\/1012736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1012720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1012720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1012720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}