According to a research, Microsoft and Google used as much energy as much as used by Azerbaijan.
Countries such as Iceland, Ghana, the Dominican Republic, and Tunisia use less electricity than these tech giants.
This energy consumption numbers also highlight the environmental impacts of such operations.
Google and Microsoft are the biggest tech giants in the world. And turns out, so is their energy consumption. A recent report reveals that these two tech giants alone consumed a whooping 24 terawatt-hours (TWh) of electricity. And this number surpasses the energy consumption of over 100 countries.
In a recent report by analyst Michael Thomas, which he shared on X (formerly Twitter), both of these companies used as much energy as much as used by Azerbaijan which has a GDP of $78.7 billion.
If you are still not able to understand how huge this number is, countries such as Iceland, Ghana, the Dominican Republic, and Tunisia each consumed 19 TWh, while Jordan used 20 TWh of energy. Libya and Slovakia consumed slightly more, with 25 TWh and 26 TWh, respectively.
This just sheds light on how much these big tech giants consume. And the demand has surged, particularly for powering data centres for cloud services and artificial intelligence advancements. More energy consumption means more growth too. Google’s revenue for 2023 was reported at $307.4 billion, while Microsoft’s was $211.9 billion, as reported by Tech Radar.
But at the same time, the energy consumption numbers also highlight the environmental impacts of such operations.
Well, both Google and Microsoft have previously committed to environmental goals. On one side,
Google aims to be carbon-free, and on the other hand, Microsoft aims to be carbon-negative by the end of the decade.
For this both the companies have substantially increased their investments in cleaner energy and energy matching to meet these targets. At this point, it is essential that these companies take significant steps to reduce their carbon footprints as they are in an influential space and this could set precedents for other industries.
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