How Today's Sustainable IT Solutions Can Support The AI Needs Of Tomorrow
Architecture and Governance, Friday, April 12th, 2024
It will be of no surprise to anyone that the energy consumption of computers is growing quickly.
According to research, in 2020 the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) sector, which includes data centres, networks and user devices, hoovered up around 915 TWh of electricity - 4-6% of all electricity used in the world - but this is set to rise and could even reach 3,200 TWh by the end of the decade. Even more startling is the news that the cloud computing sector now has a carbon footprint larger than that of the airline industry.
What puts further demand on energy resources is the widespread adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML). Ingesting, deploying and applying data globally to serve the real-time needs of customers means pushing data out to the edge and increased pressure on cloud servers.