What will power the surge in Artificial Intelligence?

Processing AI models consumes lots!! of energy. Wind farms and solar panels will not suffice. PREMIUM CONTENT subscriber access

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AI has infiltrated just about all areas of our lives. Individual consumers routinely use Alexa, Siri, Grok and ChatGPT. And AI tech is dominating in the launch of recent startups and Merger and Aquisition targets. The early AI firm, Palantir, joined S&P 500 this year and its stock price is already up nearly 700%. In pharma development, AI is sought for candidate product selection as well as protein design and structural analysis. Of course, data mining of internet activity is huge, used to predict events.

Every online interaction relies on a scaffolding of information stored in remote servers—and those machines, stacked together in data centers worldwide, require a lot of energy. Around the globe, data centers currently account for about 1 to 1.5 percent of global electricity use, according to the International Energy Agency. And the world’s still-exploding boom in artificial intelligence could drive that number up a lot—and fast. - L Leffer.