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Could EU's clean-energy transition be hampered by data centers’ power hunger?

By Stefano Porciello ( September 4, 2024, 08:45 GMT | Comment) -- The power needs of EU data centers increasingly used to service AI systems could require the equivalent of seven new nuclear power plants to service by 2026, under one scenario from the International Energy Agency. Whether the sector will be blamed for hogging clean power investment and hampering EU plans for climate neutrality in 2050 and lower energy prices will depend on industry and regulators’ choices. But the first step in taking decisions is finding reliable data.The EU’s efforts to reach climate neutrality by 2050 while cutting energy prices to competitive levels face an additional challenge: uncertainty around the growing hunger for electricity from data centers....

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