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Title: AI Set To Consume Electricity Equivalent To 22% of US Homes By 2028,
New Analysis Says

Link: https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/05/21/...

New analysis by MIT Technology Review reveals AI's rapidly growing energy
demands, with data centers expected to triple their share of US electricity
consumption from 4.4% to 12% by 2028. According to Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory projections, AI alone could soon consume electricity equivalent to
22% of all US households annually, driven primarily by inference operations
that represent 80-90% of AI's computing power. The carbon intensity of
electricity used by data centers is 48% higher than the US average,
researchers found, as facilities increasingly turn to dirtier energy sources
like natural gas to meet immediate needs. Tech giants are racing to secure
unprecedented energy resources: OpenAI and President Trump announced a $500
billion Stargate initiative, Apple plans to spend $500 billion on
manufacturing and data centers, and Google expects to invest $75 billion in
AI infrastructure in 2025 alone. Despite their massive energy ambitions,
leading AI companies remain largely silent about their per-query energy
consumption, leaving researchers struggling to assemble what one expert
called "a total black box."

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