Inside the Tedious Effort to Tally AI’s Energy Appetite

Inside the tedious effort to tally AI’s energy appetite

Takeaways from our data-driven story on how and why Big Tech is aiming to reshape our energy grids around artificial intelligence.

The Only Limit to a Brilliant AI Revolution Is Lack of Energy

Mark Mills, City Journal An age of convergence of bits and atoms has just begun.

What the AI Revolution Means for the Future of Energy

An age of convergence of bits and atoms has just begun.

AI’s Energy Appetite: Can Renewable PPAs Deliver?

The “AI boom” is no longer just a tech story—it’s driving structural shifts in global energy markets. As demand for computing power surges, data infrastructure is scaling rapidly, triggering an unprecedented wave of data centre development worldwide. By 2030, data centres are projected to account for 2% to 6% of global electricity demand, a range that reflects significant uncertainty around AI adoption rates, deployment timelines, and the mitiga…

AI energy usage, rough estimates for the hardware

Hardware for AI uses a whole lot of energy while training on data from the internets, processing queries, and hallucinating surprising solutions. Alex de Vries-Gao, from the Institute for Environmental Studies in the Netherlands, published estimates for how much energy and compared to energy demand for countries. Over the full year of 2025, a power demand of 5.3–9.4 GW could result in 46–82 TWh of electricity consumption (again, without further …