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According to a recent report by the International Energy Agency (IEA), the proliferation of AI applications is projected to double data center electricity consumption by 2030, posing significant challenges to global energy security and carbon emission reduction goals. Data centers currently account for approximately 1.5% of global electricity consumption, with an average annual growth of 12% over the past five years. The rise of generative AI is further fueling the demand for massive computing power. The United States, Europe, and China together account for roughly 85% of global data center electricity consumption. Major tech companies have already...

The Three Mile Island nuclear power plant, located in Pennsylvania, USA, is set to restart after five years of being offline. The plant became infamous due to a severe nuclear leak in 1979, but now its owner, Constellation Energy, has reached an agreement to provide power for Microsoft's growing artificial intelligence business. Image credit: The picture is AI-generated, provided by image licensing service Midjourney. Reportedly, the Unit 2 reactor at Three Mile Island overheated due to a loss of cooling water, leading to...

Meta engineers estimate that next year, there will be an addition of 1 to 2 million Nvidia H100 graphics processors for global AI inference. If all of them are used for language model generation, the energy consumption would fall within a reasonable range, generating 100,000 tokens per person per day. Only two additional nuclear power plants would be required to provide sufficient power for global AI inference. Model training faces limitations due to data scarcity, and researchers are working to improve model efficiency. In the next 3-4 years, it is expected that we will know whether current technology can achieve general AI.