The energy used run the servers and keep them from overheating is considerable. Just one block of a recently built, large data center is estimated to consume up to 40 megawatts of electricity, enough to power 154 Japanese households for a month. Data centers accounted for around 1% of global electricity use in 2019, according to a recent study in the journal Science.
See the article on Bloomberg here: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-29/japan-wants-to-take-the-heat-off-data-centers-with-the-help-of-snow
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