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The United Kingdom’s national energy transmission company, National Grid, predicts that the boom in artificial intelligence (AI) and quantum computing will increase electricity consumption in data centers by as much as 6 times in the next decade.
John Pettigrew, the head of National Grid, says the power grid is facing constraints due to dramatically increasing demand, which he says will require bold solutions.
The expected future growth of technologies such as artificial intelligence and quantum computing will require the development of larger-scale, energy-intensive data center infrastructure, J. Pettigrew wrote on his LinkedIn account last week.
He compared the situation to the one in the UK in the early part of the last decade, when the capacity of the electricity network was also limited compared to the growing demand. In the coming decade, it should be promoted not only by AI and quantum computing, but also, for example, by the development of the electric car.
When it comes to the future of generative AI technology, the topic of electricity consumption and environmental impact has, at least until recently, been on the back burner.
AI models require powerful processors for training, which consume a lot of electricity. Electricity is also needed for the implementation of the question, for example, a joint study conducted by the AI company Hugging Face and Carnegie Mellon University showed that generating a single image with AI consumes the same amount of energy as is needed to charge a phone. It is noticeable that much less electricity is needed when text is generated.
The BBC reports that some research suggests that by 2027 The AI industry will consume as much electricity as 17 million population of the Netherlands.
At that time, quantum computers process information in a completely different way than traditional computers, unlike AI, the use of which is still at an experimental level.
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