Data centres may soon burn as much extra gas as California uses daily

Data centres may soon burn as much extra gas as California uses daily

Data centres may soon burn as much extra gas as California uses daily

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…

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