Chrysta Castaneda, a lawyer with expertise in the energy industry said the amount of bandwidth needed to run an AI search is much greater than people realize.
FILE - The OpenAI logo is seen displayed on a cell phone with an image on a computer monitor generated by ChatGPT's Dall-E text-to-image model, Friday, Dec. 8, 2023, in Boston.
"So much more computers are needed and so much more electricity is needed to run the computers," Castaneda said."There are going to be a lot of challenges of power management over the next decade or so while we get adjusted to the new reality," said Castaneda. A professor of cyber sciences at Augusta University, Michael Nowatkowski, said using all this additional power for AI could create some problems.
That could cause more severe brownouts or even loss of power depending on the demand placed on the power grid," said Nowatkowski. Fariba Mamaghani with Tulane University's Business School said the price of the power market can be determined by the demand. So if demand goes up, so too will prices.The impacts will likely be felt closely by those living near data centers like in Northern Virginia, Dallas and Silicon Valley.According to Goldman Sachs Research, AI is expected to represent about 19% of the total data center power demand by 2028.
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