AI-powered virtual assistants such as ChatGPT use more energy than traditional search engines. According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), a single ChatGPT request requires ten times more ...

Data centers accounted for about 1.5 percent of global electricity consumption in 2024, an amount expected to double by 2030 ...

We need a lot more computing power … the time of robots has arrived … “the largest industry of all” … Q-Day is here … Eric Fry and the AI “space race” So said Nvidia CEO Jensen ...

Consider AI ’s appetite for energy first. The International Energy Agency ( IEA) reckons that electricity consumption by data ...

This episode is now available on-demand. This episode will explore the unique challenges created by AI, delving into the power consumption required for training and inference, and the spikey load ...

By the end of the decade, the IEA said, more U.S. electricity will go into data processing than in all the country's heavy manufacturing combined.

a ChatGPT request uses 2.9 watt-hours while traditional Google queries use about 0.3 watt-hours each. With an estimated 9 billion daily searches, this would mean an additional demand of nearly 10 TWh ...

The technology shift could provide a boost to wind, solar and batteries, which dominate the current queue waiting to link to ...