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1Calculation factorsAI chip manufacturing, 1 year
The electricity used to manufacture the compute chips and memory of Nvidia and AMD AI graphics cards.
- Selected reference: In 2024, five families of Nvidia and AMD chips, source Greenpeace.
- Included: the electricity of the factories that make the silicon wafers for chips and memory.
- Out of scope: final assembly, the factories' fluorinated gases and the rest of the server.
Sentence to citeAI chip manufacturing, 1 year: 454 ktCO2e, figure published by Greenpeace, for 984 GWh of electricity.
Origin of the value
Mostly in Taiwan, South Korea and Japan. Multiplied by more than 4 between 2023 and 2024, with rising shipments and 3 more chip families in the count.
Comparison with other infrastructure entries
Characteristics
| Unit | 1 year : in 2024, five families of Nvidia and AMD chips |
|---|---|
| Location | not applicable: a published total does not depend on the location of the servers |
| Counted | the electricity of the factories that make the silicon wafers for chips and memory |
| Not counted | final assembly, the factories' fluorinated gases and the rest of the server |
| Status | published, 2 readings with the same scope, 1 other published value |
All the characteristics
| Identifier | IA-0113, projetcelsius.com/en/ai/database/IA-0113/ |
|---|---|
| Version | 0.3 of 2 November 2026 |
| Category | Infrastructure, published as is |
| Year | 2023, Nvidia A100 and H100 chips (218 GWh), 2024, five families of Nvidia and AMD chips (450 ktCO2e) |
| Choice of the selected value | value taken as it stands from its source, without calculation |
| Sources | Greenpeace, 2025 |
| Compared with | Data centres, Ireland (7.66 TWh), Meta (18.4 TWh), Microsoft (37 TWh), Google (43.6 TWh), Digital sector in France (reference) (51.5 TWh) |
| Licence | CC BY 4.0 |
Result for the chosen case
Sources of the calculation
1 publication, for this entry and those used to calculate it, with the chosen parameters.
Energy and factors
The references of the selected values and of the entries used in this calculation.
Greenpeace · April 2025
Role and limits : Greenpeace
Author. Greenpeace East Asia
What the publication covers. electricity and carbon of AI chip manufacturing, by country of manufacture
What it does not cover. final assembly, fluorinated gases
Reading by the database. One estimate per model, the only one published for AI chips as a whole
Reference for the variant "In 2024, five families of Nvidia and AMD chips"
Scope of the figure used. Global, 2024, manufacture of silicon wafers for Nvidia A100, H100, H200, B100 and B200 and AMD MI300X chips, memory included
Limit. Estimated from market shares and assembly capacities; excluding final assembly
Published values
3 figures for the same quantity, each in its own scope.
Electricity
| Source | Date | Electricity | What the figure measures | Scope | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chip manufacturingselected by the database, v0.3 | 2026 | 984 GWh | the value selected by the database | same scope | published |
| Greenpeace East Asia ↗Chipping Point | Apr. 2025 | 984 GWh | Global, 2024, manufacture of silicon wafers for Nvidia A100, H100, H200, B100 and B200 and AMD MI300X chips, memory included | same scope | estimated |
| Greenpeace East Asia ↗Chipping Point | Apr. 2025 | 218 GWh | Global, 2023, manufacture of silicon wafers for Nvidia A100 and H100 chips only | other scope | estimated |
CO2e
| Source | Date | CO2e | What the figure measures | Scope | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Greenpeace East Asia ↗Chipping Point | Apr. 2025 | 454 ktCO2e | Global, 2024, emissions from this electricity according to the grids of Taiwan, Japan and South Korea | same scope | computation |
The published figures do not all count the same scope; the scope of each figure is written next to it. Why do the estimates diverge?
Methodology conventions
With their alternatives
| The rule | a published total is reproduced as is, with its year and scope; it is not converted with an average factor and does not add to the database's calculations |
|---|---|
| Calculate a case without an entry | The formula, the default values and a step-by-step example |
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History
Entry in version 0.3 of 2 November 2026, in the database in version 0.4
- 2 November 2026Designation : AI chip manufacturing, in one year becomes AI chip manufacturing, annual.More precise designation: the object first, the specification after the comma, the quantity or period at the end; the former title remains searchable.
- 2 November 2026Designation : AI chip manufacturing, annual becomes AI chip manufacturing, 1 year.In people's words, like the other annual blocks.
- 2 November 2026Address : fabrication-des-puces-d-ia-annuel becomes fabrication-des-puces-d-ia.Keep the old address in the redirects.
- 1st November 2026Creation : version 0.1.Entry added: AI chip manufacturing, electricity for 2023 and 2024 and carbon for 2024, from Greenpeace East Asia.
- 31 October 2026Creation of the database, in its first version (0.1).
