With the caveat that the following chart shows both data center energy consumption as well as cryptocurrency mining operations, manufacturing and electrification of fossil fuel operations, energy demand fueled in part by artificial intelligence is going to double consumption within six or seven years.
How that fits with pledges of net zero carbon dioxide footprints is unclear to some of us.
That noted, we cannot ever rule out human creativity and technology advances such as ways to dramatically lower energy consumption for AI-related operations, but some researchers suggest the demand for data center energy could grow much more than a doubling over the next six years.
Most assumptions we make about future energy consumption are necessarily linear, and assume AI operations at data centers are not essentially examples of complicated ecosystems that are necessarily “chaotic” and subject to huge changes produced by small inputs that are part of our assumptions.
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