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It’s looking more and more like we’re moving into an AI-dominated future, but there is one impediment the industry is going to have to grapple with — electricity use.
AI chips use 10 times as much electricity to respond to queries through an algorithmic Google search. Now imagine how much AI needs to drive our cars and create new drugs.
As engineers look to make AI chips faster and improve results, they are going to need a bigger share of the world’s electricity. Currently, AI data centers account for 4.6 percent of electricity consumption in the United States.
The Weekend Brief will explore this demand for electricity and how much more the data centers will need by the end of the decade.
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