By Jay Fitzgerald – A blog about Boston, Hub of the Universe, and everything else.


Thanks, AI: Demand for electricity to surge due to data-center boom

Some say AI may one day pose a threat to humanity. But they didn’t mean it this way, i.e. by potentially exacerbating climate change. How so? AI’s insatiable appetite for electric power to run new data centers. And that electricity will probably have to come from gas-fired power plants. … Both links via John Ellis’s excellent News Items

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