A global fleet of about a billion autonomous vehicles, each driving just for one hour per day, may generate about the same amount of carbon emissions as data centres currently do, according to a new study.
The research, published recently in IEEE Micro, modelled the potential energy consumption and related carbon emissions if autonomous vehicles are widely adopted.
Data centres across the globe that house the physical computing infrastructure used for running applications currently account for about 0.3 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions – about as much carbon as the country of Argentina produces annually – scientists, including those from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the US, said.
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