{"id":185597,"date":"2024-03-21T08:24:53","date_gmt":"2024-03-21T13:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/sam-altman-says-ai-using-too-much-energy-will-require-breakthrough-energy-source"},"modified":"2024-03-21T08:24:53","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T13:24:53","slug":"sam-altman-says-ai-using-too-much-energy-will-require-breakthrough-energy-source","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/sam-altman-says-ai-using-too-much-energy-will-require-breakthrough-energy-source","title":{"rendered":"Sam Altman Says AI Using Too Much Energy, Will Require Breakthrough Energy Source"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/sam-altman-says-ai-using-too-much-energy-will-require-breakthrough-energy-source2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The process is ludicrously energy intensive, with experts <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/10\/10\/climate\/ai-could-soon-need-as-much-electricity-as-an-entire-country.html\" class=\"\">estimating<\/a> that the industry could soon suck up as much electricity as an entire country.<\/p>\n<p>So it shouldn\u2019t come as a surprise that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is looking for cheaper alternatives. During a <em>Bloomberg<\/em> event at the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, the billionaire suggested that the AI models of tomorrow may require even <em>more<\/em> power \u2014 to the degree that they\u2019ll need a whole new power <em>source<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s no way to get there without a breakthrough,\u201d Altman told audiences, as <a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/openai-ceo-altman-says-davos-173636736.html\" class=\"\">quoted by <em>Reuters<\/em><\/a>. \u201cIt motivates us to go invest more in fusion,\u201d adding that we need better ways to store energy from solar power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The process is ludicrously energy intensive, with experts estimating that the industry could soon suck up as much electricity as an entire country. So it shouldn\u2019t come as a surprise that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is looking for cheaper alternatives. During a Bloomberg event at the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, the billionaire [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}