He reportedly wants 250 gigawatts of new electricity-equal to about half of Europe's all-time peak load-to run gigantic new data centers in the U.S. and elsewhere worldwide by 2033. Building or expanding power plants to generate that much electricity on Altman's timetable indeed seems almost inconceivable. "What OpenAI is trying to do is absolutely historic," says Virun Sivaram, Senior Fellow for Energy and Climate at the Council on Foreign Relations.
"A brutal Russian drone strike on the railway station in Shostka, Sumy region," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy wrote on Telegram, posting a video of a wrecked, burning passenger carriage and others with their windows blown out. He said dozens of passengers and rail workers were wounded. Regional governor Oleh Hryhorov said the attack hit a train heading from Shostka to the capital, Kyiv.
New York City's energy grid is working overtime to keep up with demand that is rising more quickly by the day because of electric devices, electric vehicles, and AI. That puts the city at real risk for more blackouts, like we saw in 2019, and that risk will only grow.
AI is enhancing predictive maintenance by integrating machine learning to monitor grid equipment's condition with greater speed and accuracy, helping to prevent outages effectively.
