{"id":218007,"date":"2025-07-16T01:24:34","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T06:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/ai-is-heading-for-an-energy-crisis-that-has-tech-giants-scrambling"},"modified":"2025-07-16T01:24:34","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T06:24:34","slug":"ai-is-heading-for-an-energy-crisis-that-has-tech-giants-scrambling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/ai-is-heading-for-an-energy-crisis-that-has-tech-giants-scrambling","title":{"rendered":"AI Is Heading For an Energy Crisis That Has Tech Giants Scrambling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ai-is-heading-for-an-energy-crisis-that-has-tech-giants-scrambling.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/artificial-intelligence\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">artificial intelligence<\/a> industry is scrambling to reduce its massive energy consumption through better cooling systems, more efficient computer chips, and smarter programming \u2013 all while AI usage explodes worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>AI depends entirely on data centers, which could consume three percent of the world\u2019s electricity by 2030, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iea.org\/reports\/energy-and-ai\/energy-demand-from-ai\">International Energy Agency<\/a>. That\u2019s double what they use today.<\/p>\n<p>Experts at McKinsey, a US consulting firm, describe a race to build enough data centers to keep up with AI\u2019s rapid growth, while warning that the world is heading toward an electricity shortage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The artificial intelligence industry is scrambling to reduce its massive energy consumption through better cooling systems, more efficient computer chips, and smarter programming \u2013 all while AI usage explodes worldwide. AI depends entirely on data centers, which could consume three percent of the world\u2019s electricity by 2030, according to the International Energy Agency. That\u2019s double [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218007","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}