Balancing AI's Growing Energy Demands

Balancing AI's Growing Energy Demands

The artificial intelligence boom is fueling a massive uptick in energy demand globally.

A Goldman Sachs report from earlier this year claimed that processing a single ChatGPT query requires almost ten times the amount of electricity as a single Google search.

But it's not just ChatGPT queries driving up demand. As we transition to more renewable energy sources, AI is becoming critical to managing and improving efficiency across our electric grid.

So how are some of the biggest American tech companies securing the power they need to meet demand? They're going nuclear.

Tech giant Microsoft recently secured a deal to restart the last functional reactor at Three Mile Island with access to 100% of the power generated. And Amazon announced a $500 million investment to develop small modular nuclear reactors. It's a sign that large tech companies see data centers – and the AI they enable – as critical to their futures.

This week, host Bill Loveless talks with Jason Bordoff and Jared Dunnmon about their latest co-written column for Foreign Policy, titled "America's AI Leadership Depends on Energy."

Jason is founding director of the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs. He's also a professor of professional practice in international and public affairs, the co-founding dean emeritus at the Columbia Climate School, and a former senior director on the staff of the U.S. National Security Council.

Jared is a nonresident fellow at the Center on Global Energy Policy. He's also a former technical director for artificial intelligence at the U.S. Defense Department's Defense Innovation Unit.

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