electrical power

According to a new study backed by the U.S. Department of Energy, power demand for U.S. data centers is expected to nearly triple over the next three years and could account for 12% of the nation's electricity consumption, a phenomenon caused by the transition of industries to artificial intelligence, Reuters reported on December 21st. The report was written by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. According to the projections, data centers could use between 74 and 132 gigawatts of electricity annually by 2028, accounting for between 6.7% and 12% of the total electricity consumption in the U.S. The range of this figure depends in part on the AI chip...

December 19, 2011 - With the public release of iOS 18.2 and many new features of Apple Intelligence coming online, the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) has warned that the explosion of artificial intelligence (AI) applications could put the U.S. and Canada at risk of widespread power outages as early as next year. According to the Financial Times, NERC, a non-profit regulator of the North American power industry, has expressed concern about the surge in data center electricity use brought on by AI services such as ChatGPT and Apple's private cloud-based computing servers...