Improving Data Center Energy Efficiency To Power The AI Revolution
Cisco News, Thursday, July 25th, 2024
The world's energy grids were not designed to support hyperscale data centers and pervasive cloud services, let alone artificial intelligence (AI) workloads. With AI workloads becoming more commonplace and scaling at unprecedented rates, energy grids are more strained than ever before.
'The public cloud created a wave of change in how data centers are built and operated,' said Vladimir Ester, CTO and Cofounder of ClusterPower, during a February 2024 panel discussion on IT sustainability. 'And in the past couple of years, we're seeing the next revolution-which is being generated by AI deployments and, more recently, very large-scale Gen AI-related infrastructures.'
This AI revolution, he added, is contributing to the global energy crisis.