At Cisco Live EMEA in Amsterdam, Cisco unveiled new AI and datacentre products addressing the rising energy demands associated with AI workloads. According to various experts, including Cisco's top executives, AI could significantly increase the power requirements of datacentres, with estimates suggesting a sixfold rise by the mid-2030s. Addressing sustainability, Cisco's Jeetu Patel emphasized that while their products become more efficient, increased AI workloads could offset these gains. The company acknowledges the vital balance needed between efficiency improvements and the burgeoning power consumption driven by AI.
The larger sustainability issue we should keep in mind is that our products are getting more and more efficient from a power perspective, said Patel.
AI would be a significant factor in an anticipated sixfold increase in datacentre power requirements between now and the mid-2030s, said National Grid CEO.
The astonishing power requirements of building datacentres fit for the AI era present an approaching inflection point, warned Cisco's Gillis.
AI-driven compute is expected to add 68GW of power demand worldwide by 2027, almost as much as is consumed by California, according to RAND.
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