Big Tech Is Still Grappling With AI’s Energy Problem

Artificial intelligence fuels Big Tech partnerships with nuclear energy producers

Nuclear power emerges as key solution for AI's massive energy needs with Microsoft restarting Three Mile Island as tech giants secure partnerships.

Big Tech Is Still Grappling With AI’s Energy Problem

What will it take to reckon with AI’s energy problem?  As AI development causes an explosion of data center demand, how the industry will be powered as it grows – and what the environmental consequences of powering it may be — remain open questions. A Harvard University study found that the carbon intensity of electricity used by data centers is 48% higher than the US average.   Though their AI ambitions show no signs of abating, tech giants are…