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Infrastructure

The major published figures: data centres by country, companies, model training, chip manufacturing, digital technology. Used as they stand, with their source; they overlap the territories and are not added to them.

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AI Impact Database: 18 entries, category Infrastructure, CO2e calculated for servers worldwide.
Unit
Data centres, world1 year415 TWh1 yearIEApublished
Data centres, France1 year4 to 5 TWh1 yearProjet Celsius and 1 otherpublished
AI in data centres1 year100 to 174 TWh1 yearProjet Celsius and 2 otherspublished
Data centres, United States1 year180 TWh1 yearIEApublished
Data centres, China1 year100 TWh1 yearIEApublished
Data centres, Europe1 year70 TWh1 yearIEApublished
Data centres, Ireland1 year7.66 TWh1 yearCSOmeasured
Meta1 year6 MtCO2e1 year18.4 TWhMetapublished
Microsoft1 year12 MtCO2e1 year37 TWhMicrosoftpublished
Google1 year15 MtCO2e1 year43.6 TWhGooglepublished
Top four cloud providers1 year110 TWh1 yearIEApublished
Training a model1 training run552 tCO2e1 training run1.29 GWhPatterson et al.published
Chip manufacturing1 year450 ktCO2e1 year984 GWhGreenpeacepublished
Digital footprint of one person (benchmark)1 person, 1 year434 kgCO2e1 person, 1 yearADEMEpublished
Footprint of one person1 person, 1 year8.3 tCO2e1 person, 1 yearInsee and SDESpublished
Digital sector in France (benchmark)1 year29.5 MtCO2e1 year51.5 TWhADEMEpublished
Digital sector worldwide1 year567 MtCO2e1 year1,180 TWhITU and World Bankpublished
Electricity use of one person1 person, 1 year6.7 MWh1 person, 1 yearRTEestimated
Version 0.4 of 13 November 2026, CC BY 4.0 licence

Calculated values depend on the location of the servers; published values are used as they stand. An empty source indicates a value calculated by the database from its factors.

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