IO+ week: Watt counts in AI

We’ve been working towards this for more than six months, and last Wednesday the big day finally arrived: a full day Watt counts in AIour conference on the unreasonably high energy consumption of AI systems. Eleven top speakers, a full room with interested participants, lively discussions and many new encounters that ultimately expand our collective knowledge. Because the latter is urgently needed. If we do nothing, we will all hit the Power Wall: the moment when AI uses more energy than we have available.

With specialists in energy, photonics, quantum computing and neuromorphic computing, we had exactly the guests we needed to make the connections that will take us forward. An expert from the International Energy Agency (IEA), the legal and ethical input from the University of Amsterdam, the business visions of Nvidia, LumAI and Axelara AI, scientists from all relevant fields… all in all, we got a complete picture of what we are currently facing and what is needed to…