AI May Soon Account for Half of Data Center Power Use if Trends Persist

AI may soon account for half of data center power use if trends persist

Alex de Vries-Gao, a PhD candidate at VU Amsterdam Institute for Environmental Studies, has published an opinion piece about the results of a simple study he conducted involving the possible amount of electricity used by AI companies to generate answers to user queries. In his paper published in the journal Joule, he describes how he calculated past and current global electricity usage by AI data centers and how he made estimates regarding the f…

AI to account for half of data centre power consumption by year-end

Electricity demand from data centres worldwide is set to more than double by 2030 to around 945 terawatt-hours