Tech companies charging ahead with artificial intelligence have a problem: AI’s rapid growth is colliding headlong with a finite amount of available energy and computing power.
AI is evolving beyond chatbots and into autonomous AI agents that demand far more computing power and electricity, leaving companies scrambling for more energy. OpenAI recently shuttered its video-generating app Sora, in part because it was gobbling up the company’s computational supplies.
The data centers that make up the backbone of AI technology need loads of energy – both to keep their servers humming and to prevent overheating. But the United States’ electrical grid isn’t exactly up to the