Energy Intelligence
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Schneider Electric CEO Jean-Pascal Tricoire believes that AI can generate immediate gains of "roughly 20%" in most applications — including "every building, most of the manufacturing and certainly most of the infrastructure in cities" — at a modest energy cost of less than 1% in extra generation to power data centers.
AI will make "smart" buildings truly smart instead of just pretending they are, agreed Holly Paeper, in charge of commercial applications at heating, ventilation and air-conditioning company Trane Technologies, at the recent Climate Week in New York. "AI can sit on top of a building's thermal management and continuously optimize it," she said. "What we're finding is that buildings can save 20%, 30%, 40% in what they're using, it's tremendous."
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