#power-consumption

#power-consumption

The bank's analysts are forecasting that AI's share of the overall data center market will double to 30% over the next two years, eating into the share from conventional cloud workloads. By 2030, the firm said in a new , overall power consumption from data centers looks set to jump 175% from 2023 levels - more than the 165% that the firm previously forecast.

Theoretically, at some points, you can see that a significant fraction of the power on Earth should be spent running AI compute, and maybe we're going to get there.