{"id":185976,"date":"2024-03-25T12:25:08","date_gmt":"2024-03-25T17:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/ai-execs-who-urgently-need-more-energy-to-power-their-tech-revolution-are-turning-to-fossil-fuels"},"modified":"2024-03-25T12:25:08","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T17:25:08","slug":"ai-execs-who-urgently-need-more-energy-to-power-their-tech-revolution-are-turning-to-fossil-fuels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/ai-execs-who-urgently-need-more-energy-to-power-their-tech-revolution-are-turning-to-fossil-fuels","title":{"rendered":"AI execs who urgently need more energy to power their tech revolution are turning to fossil fuels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ai-execs-who-urgently-need-more-energy-to-power-their-tech-revolution-are-turning-to-fossil-fuels2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>AI is driving a dramatic new need for electricity, and while tech execs have long trumpeted their <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/technology\/openai-ceo-altman-says-davos-future-ai-depends-energy-breakthrough-2024-01-16\/\" data-analytics-product-module=\"body_link\" rel=\" nofollow\">commitment to a green energy future<\/a>, the urgency of that need presents them with a difficult path forward.<\/p>\n<p>Questions about fueling the AI boom took center stage earlier this month at the CERAWeek by S&amp;P Global, The Wall Street Journal <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/business\/energy-oil\/big-techs-latest-obsession-is-finding-enough-energy-f00055b2\" data-analytics-product-module=\"body_link\" rel=\" nofollow\">reported<\/a>. The annual energy conference draws thousands of executives to Houston to discuss topics ranging from geopolitics to the energy transition.<\/p>\n<p>No one knows how much electricity will be needed to power the AI boom. AI requires massive computing power and energy loads and has <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/data-centers-ai-artificial-intelligence-farmland-power-2023-7\" data-analytics-product-module=\"body_link\" rel=\"\">triggered an explosion of data centers<\/a>. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/the-fabulous-life-of-bill-gates-2014-9\" data-analytics-product-module=\"body_link\" rel=\"\">Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates<\/a> said at the conference that the amount of power AI is bound to consume is mind-blowing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI is driving a dramatic new need for electricity, and while tech execs have long trumpeted their commitment to a green energy future, the urgency of that need presents them with a difficult path forward. Questions about fueling the AI boom took center stage earlier this month at the CERAWeek by S&amp;P Global, The Wall [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185976","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}