{"id":417493,"date":"2021-05-29T10:30:24","date_gmt":"2021-05-29T05:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=417493"},"modified":"2021-05-29T11:26:45","modified_gmt":"2021-05-29T05:56:45","slug":"chinas-internet-firms-power-consumption-set-to-increase-by-289-by-2035","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/chinas-internet-firms-power-consumption-set-to-increase-by-289-by-2035\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s internet firms\u2019 power consumption set to increase by 289% by 2035"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s computer data centres and rapidly expanding 5G stations could use four times more electricity by 2035, putting Beijing\u2019s carbon neutral goals under stress, a new report by environment group Greenpeace said on Friday. <\/p>\n<p>Electricity use by data centres and 5G base stations in China will grow by an estimated 289% between 2020 and 2035, the report said.<\/p>\n<p>The huge jump in power consumption would mean more carbon emissions as 61% of China\u2019s electricity generation is from coal, the report added.<\/p>\n<p>According to Greenpeace data, the combined electricity consumption by data centres and 5G base stations in China stood at more than 200 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh) in 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s computer data centres and rapidly expanding 5G stations could use four times more electricity by 2035, putting Beijing\u2019s carbon neutral goals under stress, a new report by environment group Greenpeace said on Friday. Electricity use by data centres and 5G base stations in China will grow by an estimated 289% between 2020 and 2035, the report said. The huge jump in power consumption would mean more carbon emissions as 61% of China\u2019s electricity generation is from coal, the report added. According to Greenpeace data, the combined electricity consumption by data centres and 5G base stations in China stood at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,130,236],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-417493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-power-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}