Artificial intelligence technologies will boost global output by 0.5 per cent a year to 2030, far outweighing the costs of rising carbon emissions from the power-hungry data centres running the models, the International Monetary Fund says.
In a report released Tuesday, IMF researchers claim the AI boom will “cause manageable but varying increases in energy prices and emissions” depending on policies and infrastructure.
Under current energy policies, the AI boom raises the average annual growth rate of global GDP by 0.5 percentage points between 2025 and 2030 while adding around 1.7 Gt of greenhouse gas emissions, according to the report.
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