Listen "Infinite Engines: AI’s Quest for Power"
Episode Synopsis
Send us a textAI’s energy appetite is already staggering, and projections suggest it could reshape global electricity demand within the next decade. Data centers consumed less than 300 terawatt-hours of electricity in 2020, but forecasts from the International Energy Agency indicate this could surge to nearly 1,000 terawatt-hours by 2028, more than Japan’s entire electricity consumption today. By 2028, AI workloads could account for nearly half of all global data center electricity use, with workloads growing at 30% annually compared to just 9% for conventional servers. Training advanced models like GPT‑4 has already consumed over 50 gigawatt-hours, enough to power San Francisco for three consecutive days. These figures highlight how AI’s “evolutionary cycle”, from perceptive AI to generative, reasoning, and eventually physical AI, will demand exponentially more energy as applications expand into robotics, autonomous vehicles, and industrial automation.Referral Links StreamYard: https://streamyard.com/pal/c/5142511674195968 ElevenLabs: https://try.elevenlabs.io/e1hfjs3izllp Contact Digital Revolution "X" Post (formerly Twitter) us at @DigitalRevJim Email: [email protected] Follow Digital Revolution On: YouTube @ www.YouTube.com/@Digital_Revolution Instagram @ https://www.instagram.com/digitalrevolutionwithjimkunkle/ X (formerly Twitter) @ https://twitter.com/digitalrevjim LinkedIn @ https://www.linkedin.com/groups/14354158/ If you found value from listening to this audio release, please add a rating and a review comment. Ratings and review comments on all podcasting platforms helps me improve the quality and value of the content coming from Digital Revolution. I greatly appreciate your support and Viva la Revolution!
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