Data centres may soon burn as much extra gas as California uses daily
A power substation near a data centre in Virginia Nathan Howard/Bloomberg via Getty Images Silicon Valley’s scramble to build
A power substation near a data centre in Virginia
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Silicon Valley’s scramble to build more data centres could boost US gas demand by the equivalent of another New York State or California within a decade, with much of this expansion due to the energy cost of training and using artificial intelligence.
“If the world wants all [AI] workloads to be powered only by sustainable power in 2030 from currently available technologies, it will have to temper its AI initiative,” Aneesh Prabhu and his colleagues at S&P Global, a financial information and analytics firm…
