Analysis: the AI frenzy is expected to drive the global data center energy consumption to 1,580 TWh by 2034, about as much as is used by all of India currently
Which makes me wonder why they don't build huge data centres in northern Quebec. — Close to hydro generation. — Free cooling, both ambient air and the cold river water. — Do these take lot of personnel to run? Warner Crocker / @WarnerCrocker@mastodon.social : Perhaps this is the AI issue we should be paying attenion to. — AI Is Wreaking Havoc on Global Power Systems — #AI — https://www.bloomberg.com/... [image] Bluesky: Chuy / @txo.bsky.social : AI would consciously decide to eliminate humankind, they said. — It was an existential threat, they said. — They were right, but for the wrong reasons. [embedded post] X: Karen Wu / @karin62366 : New AI data centers are coming online so fast that the electricity demand is straining global power grids and threatening clean energy goals https://www.bloomberg.com/... via @bbgvisualdata [image] Leonardo / @leonardonclt : What's alarming is that the growth in electricity demand from data centers is such that it could soon equal or exceed some countries' renewable energy supply. In Ireland, data center's energy usage was already equal to 53% of its renewable energy supply in 2022. [image] Dina Bass / @dinabass : The rush to build and distribute AI products from global data centers is wreaking havoc with power systems “I don't think we can move that much electricity around the globe, forget about generating it,” says Ali Farhadi, CEO of the Allen Institute for AI. https://www.bloomberg.com/... [video] Leonardo / @leonardonclt : 🚨NEW🚨: AI Is Wreaking Havoc on Global Power Systems We analyzed data on 1000s of data centers and found that AI data centers are coming online so fast that electricity demand is straining global power grids and threatening clean energy goals 🎁 https://www.bloomberg.com/... [video] Leonardo / @leonardonclt : Because of their huge electricity capacity, data centers are also HUGE, literally, some of these buildings are now the size of 130 soccer fields or TWICE the size of the mall of America (the biggest shopping mall in the US with a rollercoaster inside). [video] @bbgvisualdata : Read The Big Take: New AI data centers are coming online so fast that the electricity demand is straining global power grids and threatening clean energy goals. 🔗⚡️🤖: https://www.bloomberg.com/... [video] Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life : The capital intensive nature of generative AI dwarfs the costs of prior software waves like the internet or smartphones. It's not just paying an arm and a leg to Nvidia for GPUs but also needing to build data centers with huge power requirements. https://www.bloomberg.com/... Leonardo / @leonardonclt : Following the Virginia, US, model, South East Asia is rapidly becoming a new capital for data centers, especially Malaysia, where thousands of Megawatts of capacity are under development. [image] Leonardo / @leonardonclt : Data centers use A MASSIVE AMOUNT of electricity, more than most countries use in an entire year [image] LinkedIn: Ashish Verma : By 2034, global energy consumption by data centers is projected to surpass 1,580 TWh, equivalent to India's total energy usage. …