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Interactive IEA tracker shows where AI is guzzling the most energy

The Register · Dan Robinson · last updated

The International Energy Agency (IEA) has unveiled an online platform to closely monitor and analyze the impact of AI across the energy sector worldwide.

The Energy and AI Observatory sports interactive tools to explore datacenter electricity consumption and the scale of digital infrastructure by region, and provides case studies to illustrate how AI is being deployed across the energy sector itself, as well as its effects.

It follows the publication earlier this year of a report from the IEA estimating that energy consumed by bit barns worldwide is set to more than double by 2030, surpassing that currently used by all of Japan. AI is the driver of most of this; the energy required by “AI-optimized” datacenters is projected to outpace the rest and more than quadruple by the end of the decade.

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