{"id":944521,"date":"2025-07-08T07:26:31","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T01:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=944521"},"modified":"2025-07-08T07:58:50","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T02:28:50","slug":"ais-power-drive-is-fuelling-a-green-boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/08\/ais-power-drive-is-fuelling-a-green-boom\/","title":{"rendered":"AI\u2019s power drive is fuelling a green boom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hyperscale data centres are guzzling electricity and water at an alarming rate. For one, Google\u2019s sustainability report showed that its electricity use went up 27% in 2024 to 32 Terawatt-hours. Barclays says that hyperscalers Google, Microsoft and Meta are on track for their 7th consecutive year of 25% growth in power demand. Their Scope 3 emissions have also risen 23%-100% from the 2019 baseline. But this has also translated into a clean energy drive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hyperscale data centres are guzzling electricity and water at an alarming rate. For one, Google\u2019s sustainability report showed that its electricity use went up 27% in 2024 to 32 Terawatt-hours. Barclays says that hyperscalers Google, Microsoft and Meta are on track for their 7th consecutive year of 25% growth in power demand. Their Scope 3 emissions have also risen 23%-100% from the 2019 baseline. But this has also translated into a clean energy drive.<\/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":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-944521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944521","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=944521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=944521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=944521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=944521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}