Datacenters Looking To Renewables, Nuclear, And Gas, In Quest For More Power
The Register, Thursday, May 16th, 2024
Bit barns might end up adding to the grid's capacity
Even before the AI revolution (or bubble) took off in 2023, datacenters already used a decent amount of electricity. And the industry's increasing appetite for machine learning will require even more power.
The estimates for the amount of power AI-infused datacenters might use are incredible. "By taking a middle figure of 300 TWh for the annual global datacenter power consumption, Uptime Intelligence puts generative AI annualized energy at around 2.3 percent of the total grid power consumption by datacenters in the first quarter of 2024," the Uptime Institute predicted in conversation with The Register.