Can the grid cope with AI’s growing appetite?

As the Energy Council collects artificial intelligence, the suspended question in the air is: How can we run the future without blowing the network?

The huge data centers needed to train and operate the latest Amnesty International are a thirst for electricity. Using energy center in the UK data on the right track to reproduce six times by 2034, and at this point it can absorb nearly a third of electricity in our nation. This is a huge breed to place it on a system that was built for a completely different world, and it is one with one -way power flow.

The Energy Council has artificial intelligence-a team of technology giants, energy companies, OffGem, and the national energy system operator-the decisive mission in an attempt to predict the extent of this AI monster thirst. Their work occurs just as the government flows on two billion pounds in the plan of artificial intelligence opportunities, which is a great vision of artificial intelligence tissue in hospitals, classrooms and companies.

Peter Kyle, UK Minister of Science and Technology, said: “Granting our researchers and innovators has access to the treatment force they need will not only maintain our position as the third largest in the world, but to develop British experience at the heart of Amnesty International breakthroughs that will improve our lives, modernize our public services, and provoke economic growth that represents our sin for our plan.

“We are clear despite the need to ensure that we are able to operate this golden era of the British Supreme Organization through the responsible and sustainable energy sources. Today’s talks will help us to pay that task, and to hand over the infrastructure of Amnesty International, which will benefit societies up and down the country for generations to come without compromising the aspirations of our clean power force.”

It is difficult to exaggerate the huge scale of the energy problem. On the global level, the electricity needed for data centers is expected to double in just five years, and ultimately demands energy three times more than the UK is currently using. AI is the main perpetrator.

One of the artificial intelligence servers can be requested 120 kW of energy, a huge leaf of 5-10 kW needs of the regular shelf. These are not fixed sips of strength, too. The work burdens of artificial intelligence can decline unexpectedly, creating a huge and huge power that threatens the stability of the entire network.

In response, the UK plans to a tremendous reform. The central neck is the “great network upgrade”, an investment of 58 billion pounds designed to be “once in expanding a generation” to the electricity network. This includes building a high -capacity electric highway that extends from north to south and expanding the external network to bring huge amounts of new wind energy.

Ed Miliband, Energy Security Secretary and Safi Zero, commented: “We are making the United Kingdom a superior power of clean energy, and building the local energy that this country needs to obtain bills for good and create new jobs as part of our plan for change.

“The combination of the largest players in artificial intelligence and energy will help us discuss the role that artificial intelligence can play in building a new era of clean electricity for our country, and meeting energy requirements for new technology while building a clean energy system for families and companies.”

But there is a huge road barrier. Even if we build wind farms and solar panels, connecting them to the power network to process the increasing demand for artificial intelligence is another story. The current process is slow, leaving more than 600 renewable energy projects – with a value of billions of billions – stuck in the waiting list. Some were said to have been waiting for 15 years.

Urgent reforms are pushed to try to remove this accumulation, which is a vital step if our artificial intelligence future is backed by green energy. The government is also trying to accelerate matters by announcing the “critical national infrastructure” data centers and preparing “Amnesty International growth areas” where planning and power contacts can be tracked quickly.

The data center industry turns from being just part of the problem until it becomes part of the solution. Instead of just being negative negative pigs, they have become active partners in the energy network. Many are chasing zero goals, investing in their renewable power on the site, and participating in “response from the request”. This means that they can stop the tasks of artificial intelligence smartly when the network is under pressure and releases it again when the green energy is abundant, which helps to balance the entire system.

Artificial intelligence itself can also help. The same complex algorithms that require a lot of energy can also be used to make our network more intelligent, expect energy mutations and improve energy flow in actual time.

The road forward is clear, but it will not be easy. The UK has the right ideas and puts dangerous money on the table to process the energy network requirements of artificial intelligence, but everything depends on speed and implementation. The network connection jam should be broken, and the great network upgrade should be caused at a pace.

(Photo by Andreas Gabush)

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