These two companies consumed 24 Terawatt-hours (TWh) each of electricity during 2023, which is a larger amount than more than 100 countries used in the same year. That’s about on pace with Azerbaijan’s electricity usage, and it’s higher than the 19 TWh consumed by Iceland, Ghana, the Dominican Republic and Tunisia. It’s only slightly lower than the 25 TWh that Libya used and the 26 TWh of Slovakia.
Google and Microsoft consume more power than how many countries?
Answer: More than a hundred.
Big Tech needs big energy. New research claims that the amount of electricity required to keep large technology companies like Google and Microsoft running, due in large part to their significant data centers, is equal to that of some of the world’s fairly large countries.
These two companies consumed 24 Terawatt-hours (TWh) each of electricity during 2023, which is a larger amount than more than 100 countries used in the same year. That’s about on pace with Azerbaijan’s electricity usage, and it’s higher than the 19 TWh consumed by Iceland, Ghana, the Dominican Republic and Tunisia. It’s only slightly lower than the 25 TWh that Libya used and the 26 TWh of Slovakia.
These numbers serve as a potent reminder not only of these companies’ massive scale, but also of their power to spearhead sustainability and green energy initiatives. Both have pledged to be carbon-free or carbon-neutral by the end of the decade.
These two companies consumed 24 Terawatt-hours (TWh) each of electricity during 2023, which is a larger amount than more than 100 countries used in the same year. That’s about on pace with Azerbaijan’s electricity usage, and it’s higher than the 19 TWh consumed by Iceland, Ghana, the Dominican Republic and Tunisia. It’s only slightly lower than the 25 TWh that Libya used and the 26 TWh of Slovakia.
