AI models are out on an energy-intensive training session with no end in sight.
AI models are out on an energy-intensive training session with no end in sight. The training takes place on the servers in the world’s data centres, which currently number just over 10,000. Especially the large language models and generative AI that creates images and videos consume huge amounts of electricity.
They are so voracious that the International Energy Agency (IEA) has estimated that the power they needed for computing increased a billion-fold from 2022 to 2024.
The entire global energy sector is now changing because the demand for electricity to run and cool servers is so high.
Read more at: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
