Summary:
– AI could need 60+ GW of electricity, more than major U.S. cities use.
– Data centers and AI infrastructure drive urgent demand for power.
– Nuclear, natural gas and renewables are key to meeting AI growth.
They say that artificial intelligence (AI) will be the most transformative technological development ever. Pick any revolutionary advancement you can think of — the Internet, smartphones, air travel, automobiles, the conveyor belt. You can go back as far as fire itself, and experts say AI has a chance to outshine them all.
As a consequence, there’s an international winner-take-all race to supremacy underway that involves the United States , China and Europe , and the victor stands to emerge at the top of the world’s economic pecking order.
Much is at stake as