KROLL：2025年保障低碳人工智能报告（英文版）

The UN’s International Energy Agency (IEA) stated in its 2024 World Energy Outlook2 that “a substantial increase in electricity consumption from data centers appears inevitable.” In the UK, around 500 data centers currently consume 2.5%3 of all electricity in the UK. In Ireland (about 120 data centers), the figure is 21%4. Those figures are projected to reach 6% and 30% respectively by 2030. In the U.S., the figures are estimated to grow from 4% in 2024 to between 4.6% and 9.1%.5 High loads a