Data centers and climate

2025-09-06 16:58

# Data centers and climate

“Do data centers only seem bad for the climate because we can see them?”

Some interesting context/analysis on how much energy data centers use.

https://andymasley.substack.com/p/do-data-centers-only-seem-bad-for

The image is a pie chart labeled “Global greenhouse gas emissions by sector. The most obvious thing is that “Energy” is shown as 73.2% of the pie. Next largest is “Agriculture, Forestry & Land Use” at 18.4%. Energy is broken into sub-categories: Buildings 17.5%, Transport 16.2%, Industry 24.2%