North America

December 19, 2011 - With the public release of iOS 18.2 and many new features of Apple Intelligence coming online, the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) has warned that the explosion of artificial intelligence (AI) applications could put the U.S. and Canada at risk of widespread power outages as early as next year. According to the Financial Times, NERC, a non-profit regulator of the North American power industry, has expressed concern about the surge in data center electricity use brought on by AI services such as ChatGPT and Apple's private cloud-based computing servers...