Name: 資料中心如何運作？AI 驅動成長的驚人原因！ (How data centers work and why AI is driving their growth)
Uploaded: 2025-11-07T05:21:43.000Z
Duration: 1 min 38 s

A data center houses rows of computers and equipment for storing, processing, and transmitting data.

資料中心裡擺滿了電腦和設備，用來儲存、處理和傳輸資料。

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They typically have few windows and extra security, including cameras and sometimes biometric screening.

它們通常窗戶很少，而且有額外的安全措施，像是攝影機，有時候還有生物辨識篩檢。

The computers need a lot of electricity to operate and to keep the equipment from overheating.

這些電腦需要大量的電力來運作，並防止設備過熱。

That also requires more electricity and huge amounts of water for elaborate air conditioning.

這也需要更多的電力和大量的水來進行精密的空調系統。

The International Energy Agency says one large data center uses the same amount of electricity as it takes to power 400,000 electric cars.

國際能源署表示，一個大型資料中心使用的電力，相當於 40 萬輛電動車的總用電量。

Tech companies are increasingly using their data centers to train and operate artificial intelligence systems.

科技公司越來越常利用它們的資料中心來訓練和運行人工智慧系統。

Training an AI model to learn from huge amounts of data requires additional computing power.

訓練一個 AI 模型從海量資料中學習，需要額外的計算能力。

Conventional data center services run on processors known as CPUs.

傳統的資料中心服務運行在稱為 CPUs 的處理器上。

AI relies on Graphics Processing Units, or GPUs.

AI 則仰賴圖形處理單元，也就是 GPUs。

The IEA estimates that asking OpenAI's ChatGPT to compose an answer requires nearly 10 times as much electricity as a traditional Google Search, Amazon, Microsoft, and

國際能源署估計，請 OpenAI 的 ChatGPT 回答問題，所需的電力大約是傳統 Google 搜尋的 10 倍，而 Google、Amazon 和 Microsoft 都已宣佈計畫利用核能為它們的美國資料中心供電。

Google have all announced plans to tap into nuclear energy to help power their US Data centers.

它們也協助資助了新的風力和太陽能農場以及其他替代能源。

They've also helped finance new wind and solar farms and other alternative energy sources.

不過，短期內，大多數資料中心仍高度依賴周圍的電網，而電網主要由燃燒化石燃料供電，這也是全球暖化的主要原因。

In the near term, however, most data centers are still heavily reliant on the surrounding electricity grid, which is largely powered by burning fossil fuels, the primary caus of global warming.

這使得一些國家和科技公司更難兌現它們應對氣候變遷的承諾。

This is making it harder for some countries and tech companies to keep their promises to address climate change.