CAN POWER GRIDS HANDLE INCREASES IN AI AND AC.

With climate change, EV’s and AI can the existing grids handle all the increases in demand. The UK already doesn’t have the infrastructure to cope with the increases in renewables and power demands are sky rocketing.

You may not be aware that AI could potentially cause energy consumption to increase so much that existing power grids can’t keep up. For example, just one single training run for an AI engine like Bard or ChatGPT consumes as much power as 120 households consume in an entire year. One of these AI companies can require more power than an entire city like San Francisco just to train its engines. The current GPUs and CPUs are designed for gaming, not AI. For AI, you need hundreds of servers running in parallel, which is a big challenge. New architecture is being developed, but the current infrastructure is struggling to keep up with demand. With governments involved in internal bickering, foreign wars, cost of living, collapsing healthcare the list goes on but planning for the future is not happening. Maybe this will slow down the pace of AI more than any regulations.