
A power substation near a data center in Virginia
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Silicon Valley’s scramble to build more data centers could increase US natural gas demand by the equivalent of another New York state or California within a decade, much of that expansion due to the energy cost of training and using artificial intelligence.
“If the world wants to power all (AI) workloads in 2030 with only sustainable energy from the technologies available today, it will need to refine its AI initiative.” Aneesh Prabhu and his colleagues at S&P Global, a financial information and…