U.S. Department of Energy

According to a new study backed by the U.S. Department of Energy, power demand for U.S. data centers is expected to nearly triple over the next three years and could account for 12% of the nation's electricity consumption, a phenomenon caused by the transition of industries to artificial intelligence, Reuters reported on December 21st. The report was written by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. According to the projections, data centers could use between 74 and 132 gigawatts of electricity annually by 2028, accounting for between 6.7% and 12% of the total electricity consumption in the U.S. The range of this figure depends in part on the AI chip...

In a recent interview with Axios, U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said that she is actively exploring nuclear power plant solutions to alleviate the electricity demand of AI data centers. Granholm said that the development of AI in the United States is not a problem in itself, and AI can help humans solve many problems. But the key to the problem is that the rapid development of AI has exceeded the carrying capacity of the national power grid, and the existing power grid cannot support the rapid expansion of AI data centers. According to reports, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has been working with Microsoft, Google, and...