🤷♂️ #Международный The IMF sees risks in mining and AI for the energy sector. The regulator believes that the tax burden and increased tariffs for these categories of business can reduce "carbon emissions".
At the same time, the IMF directly states that data centers today account for only 2% of global electricity consumption and less than 1% of global emissions.
According to the forecast, consumption of the above categories will grow to 3.5% in three years, which is equivalent to the current consumption of Japan, the fifth largest consumer of electricity in the world.