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The short version
- The telecommunications networks connecting datacenters to businesses and consumers are themselves major electricity consumers.
- 5G and its successors mean ever higher energy demands.
- Newer comms architectures deliver more bandwidth and richer services, but they also require denser cells, and 5G infrastructure such as multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) antennas consumes more power than earlier equipment.
What happened
Telecom industry electricity consumption is rising in parallel. The IEA put telecom network consumption at 260 to 360 TWh annually in 2022, up to 1.5 percent of global electricity use at the time, with mobile comms accounting for two thirds of the total.
Why it matters
This all plays out against surging electricity demand in general, as sectors such as transportation and industry shift away from fossil fuels.
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