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Microsoft's Electricity Use Has Doubled Between 2020–2023

https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/microsofts-electricity-use-has-doubled-between-2020-2023

Big Tech’s AI arms race has a significant energy cost. For example, a study found that training OpenAI’s GPT-4 used up to 62,000 megawatt-hours, equal to the energy needs of 1,000 U.S. households over 5-6 years.

And, as Visual Capitalist's Pallavi Rao details below, this can be seen when tracking Microsoft’s electricity use (in terawatt-hours) and related carbon emissions (in million metric tons of CO₂e) in the last four years. Continue…