Power
Summary
In the early months of 2024, a major hyperscaler revealed it had quietly doubled its artificial intelligence (AI) cluster power budget to more than 300 MW—enough to power an entire city. The announcement stunned many industry observers, but for those building and managing the infrastructure that powers AI, the escalation came as no surprise. It simply reinforced a truth long understood by those at the heart of data center operations: AI’s hunger for compute power is boundless, and energy is its currency.
Today’s data centers, the workhorses of our digital economy, face a paradox. While they are asked to fuel the rapid advancement of generative AI, they must do so under increasingly tight energy budgets, with sustainability mandates and power constraints threatening to slow innovation. The question isn’t whether AI will transform industries—it already is—but whether our infrastructure can keep up without buckling under the weight of AI’s energy appetite.
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