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Carbon cost burden seen as hurdle to attracting big tech tenants to data centres

Big tech companies are using access to renewable energy as a key yardstick when selecting sites for AI data centres, prompting warnings about South Korea’s competitiveness. The Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis said South Korea’s power mix, with a high share of fossil generation, could become a structural weakness in attracting tenants. It said carbon price gaps could add costs for exports to the EU and raise counterparty risk and production costs for semiconductor clusters and AI data centres.

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AI era drives data centre cooling shift from air to water

Global data centre electricity demand is rising as AI, high-performance computing and cloud services expand, making cooling efficiency a key infrastructure task. The IEA estimates data centres account for about 1.5 percent of global power use, with energy demand expected to double by 2030. As cooling can use about half of a data centre’s energy, operators are increasingly turning to water-based liquid cooling to address higher power densities and improve power use effectiveness.