Artificial intelligence systems could account for nearly half of datacentre power consumption by the end of this year, analysis has revealed.
The estimates by Alex de Vries-Gao, the founder of the Digiconomist tech sustainability website, came as the International Energy Agency forecast that AI would require almost as much energy by the end of this decade as Japan uses today.
De Vries-Gao’s calculations, to be published in the sustainable energy journal Joule, are based on the power consumed…
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