Data centers consume around 1.5% of global electricity, but demand is very geographically concentrated. Few — if any — technologies have been adopted as quickly as artificial intelligence (AI). Since that computation runs on electricity, discussions around AI often return to what this means for energy demand…
Source: Our World in Data – A project of Global Change Data Lab
Our World In Data
- A never-ending childhood of malaria
- Beef production in Brazil has been the largest driver of global deforestation in recent decades
- The rise of electoral democracy
- Which countries have already passed peak population, and when will the rest do so?
- 138 million children are in child labor. What does this actually mean?
Climate Change
- Air conditioning is almost universal in the US and Japan — but not elsewhere
- Hannah Ritchie’s book, Clearing the Air, is coming out in paperback in September
- How do we track a changing climate?
