Not at the scale of one person: a year of regular use comes to about 2.8 kgCO2e according to our calculation, against about 5 kgCO2e for a single beef meal and 2,060 kgCO2e for a Paris-New York return flight, according to ADEME. On a global scale, data centres consumed 485 TWh of electricity in 2025, and the International Energy Agency expects 945 TWh in 2030.
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