An electrical substation near a data center in Virginia
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Silicon Valley’s rush to build more data centers could increase U.S. gas demand to the equivalent of that of another state’s New York or California within a decade, much of this expansion being due to the energy cost of training and using artificial intelligence.
“If the world wants all (AI) workloads to be powered solely by sustainable energy in 2030 from currently available technologies, it will need to moderate its AI initiative. » Anesh Prabhu and his colleagues at S&P Global, a financial information and analysis company…
