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These reports keep coming in ... 4th industrial revolution advances require embracing a strategy of #energy_abudance. Laila Kearney reporting here what South Shore Consulting Paratrade Corporation Adrian Gvosdev Kranz discussed with The National Interest this past July ... "data centers require access to evermore quantities of reliable energy to power them. A quick glance at the electrical generation capacity of North America, much of Europe, and Asia leads you to a simple conclusion: more generation capacity—and cleaner generation capacity at that—is needed." https://lnkd.in/gidu76Mj
My Reuters story from today was a first look at unpublished U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)-funded research by Berkeley Lab, which projects that U.S. data center power demand could nearly triple by 2028 and account for as much as 12% of the country's electricity consumption. The expansion of AI data centers is responsible for most of that growth, which comes alongside swelling energy needs from climate-driven electrification mandates and manufacturing onshoring. The report, which is third of its kind, with the last one produced in 2016, is known for setting standards for data center power estimates and forecasts as well as strategies for making the industry more energy efficient. "By showing what the energy use is and, more importantly, what's causing the growth in energy use, it helps us think about what opportunities there are for efficiencies," research lead Arman Shehabi said.
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