We need energy for AI, and AI for energy
1 week, 1 day ago

We need energy for AI, and AI for energy

Live Mint  

In 1903, Mark Twain wrote that “It takes a thousand men to invent a telegraph, or a steam engine, or a phonograph, or a photograph, or a telephone or any other important thing." As AI usage increases, its energy requirements will rise, and if demand outstrips supply, the technology’s development will be strangled. To allow AI’s development to taper off because of insufficient energy supplies would be an act of national self-harm. Fusion generators use the immense energy released when light atomic nuclei combine to form heavier ones, making it a potentially abundant, reliable, and clean power source. AIs should be deployed to identify and develop new ways to improve data centres’ efficiency and realize fusion energy’s potential.

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Big Tech Will Scour the Globe in Its Search for Cheap Energy
3 weeks, 4 days ago

Big Tech Will Scour the Globe in Its Search for Cheap Energy

Wired  

On the southern tip of Malaysia lies the state of Johor, renowned for its beaches and mountainous jungle. But Johor has a new boom industry: data centers to power generative AI, with Microsoft committing more than $2 billion on just such a data center. This draw to deliver AI is so powerful that big tech firms are buying dirty power …

Meta joins Google, Amazon & OpenAI, latest among tech giants turning to nuclear power to fuel AI ambitions
1 month ago

Meta joins Google, Amazon & OpenAI, latest among tech giants turning to nuclear power to fuel AI ambitions

Firstpost  

Meta has issued a call for proposals for bringing nuclear reactors online by the early 2030s to support its data centres and the surrounding communities. It is looking for partners who can develop and manage a facility that has a capacity of 1 to 4 gigawatts Meta’s interest in nuclear power reflects the increasing energy demands of AI technologies, which …

How to make AI less of a power guzzler
1 month, 2 weeks ago

How to make AI less of a power guzzler

Live Mint  

Artificial intelligence is poised to transform both work and everyday life. But it has a dark underside: AI computer centers consume enormous amounts of electricity and water, to power their processing chips and cool the heat they emit. The biggest AI providers, including Amazon, Alphabet Inc.’s Google, Meta and Microsoft, say they are working to be both carbon-neutral and replenish …

AI is giving us a nuclear renaissance: Can it help solve the climate crisis too?
1 month, 2 weeks ago

AI is giving us a nuclear renaissance: Can it help solve the climate crisis too?

Live Mint  

Nuclear energy was the artificial intelligence of the 1960s. Despite its known dangers—Hiroshima and Nagasaki were quite recent back then—there was great optimism over how nuclear technology could change the world with abundant cheap energy, and free humanity from the tyranny of fossil fuels. Capturing this zeitgeist, US president Dwight D. Eisenhower delivered his famous ‘Atoms for Peace’ speech at …

Tech companies are signing nuclear deals because AI is sucking up too much energy
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Tech companies are signing nuclear deals because AI is sucking up too much energy

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. And most recently, Amazon has perhaps taken the biggest step of the trio, signing three deals to …

Silicon Valley has a plan to save humanity: Just flip on the nuclear reactors
3 months, 1 week ago

Silicon Valley has a plan to save humanity: Just flip on the nuclear reactors

CNN  

A version of this story appeared in CNN Business’ Nightcap newsletter. Microsoft this month secured a deal to reopen a reactor on Three Mile Island, the site of the 1979 partial meltdown near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, to give the company enough power to sustain its AI growth. And while AI doomer predictions often get brushed off as alarmist forecasts, you can’t …

Is artificial intelligence worth all the money and energy it’s guzzling?
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Is artificial intelligence worth all the money and energy it’s guzzling?

Live Mint  

An incident on 28 March 1979 changed the course of energy forever, at least in the US. The reason: to meet its burgeoning need for clean energy for its massive artificial intelligence data centres, as the tech industry balances building giant energy-sucking AI models with its environmental, social and governance goals. The global concern this spawned has led Big Tech …

Editorial: Generative AI is an energy hog and that could hurt progress fighting climate change
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Editorial: Generative AI is an energy hog and that could hurt progress fighting climate change

LA Times  

Artificial intelligence is one of the world’s fast-growing technologies, with Google, Microsoft, Meta, Apple and others rolling out generative AI models. It’s also one of the most energy-intensive technologies, and that is raising alarm that AI data centers’ thirst for electricity will increase planet-warming emissions and strain the electrical grid. Data centers, or large buildings filled with computer servers, already …

ChatGPT’s boss claims nuclear fusion is the answer to AI’s soaring energy needs. Experts say not so fast
9 months, 2 weeks ago

ChatGPT’s boss claims nuclear fusion is the answer to AI’s soaring energy needs. Experts say not so fast

CNN  

CNN — Artificial intelligence is energy-hungry and as companies race to make it bigger, smarter and more complex, its thirst for electricity will increase even further. “There’s no way to get there without a breakthrough, we need fusion,” alongside scaling up other renewable energy sources, Altman said in a January interview. Then in March, when podcaster and computer scientist Lex …

Big Tech’s Latest Obsession Is Finding Enough Energy
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Big Tech’s Latest Obsession Is Finding Enough Energy

Live Mint  

HOUSTON—Every March, thousands of executives take over a downtown hotel here to reach oil and gas deals and haggle over plans to tackle climate change. But most everyone agreed the data centers needed to advance AI will require so much power they could strain the power grid and stymie the transition to cleaner energy sources. Former U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest …

AI solves nuclear fusion puzzle for near-limitless clean energy
10 months, 1 week ago

AI solves nuclear fusion puzzle for near-limitless clean energy

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Scientists have used artificial intelligence to overcome a huge challenge for producing near-limitless …

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