The veracious demand for generative AI (genAI) tools is driving a significant increase in the use of power-sucking GPUs and TPUs in data centers, some of which are scaling up from tens of thousands to more than 100,000 units per server farm.
AI-related energy consumption is expected to grow about 45% year through the next three years. For example, the most popular chatbot, OpenAI's ChatGPT, is estimated to use about 227 million kilowatt-hours of electricity annually to process 78 billion user queries.
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