{"id":243041,"date":"2026-08-22T01:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T06:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/new-technique-could-slash-ais-memory-energy-use-by-thousands-of-times"},"modified":"2026-08-22T01:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T06:20:08","slug":"new-technique-could-slash-ais-memory-energy-use-by-thousands-of-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/new-technique-could-slash-ais-memory-energy-use-by-thousands-of-times","title":{"rendered":"New Technique Could Slash AI\u2019s Memory Energy Use by Thousands of Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-technique-could-slash-ais-memory-energy-use-by-thousands-of-times2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The microscopic magnetic flips behind digital memory could soon use thousands of times less energy, offering a new way to shrink AI\u2019s rapidly growing power footprint.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Artificial intelligence is creating and processing data on an enormous scale. Searches, recommendations, generated images, scientific simulations, and large language models all depend on information that must be repeatedly stored, transferred, retrieved, and rewritten. Each operation consumes energy, and those costs multiply across the billions of devices and sprawling data centers that support the digital world.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/university-of-edinburgh\/\">University of Edinburgh<\/a> have now developed a mathematical framework designed to slash the energy required to write information in future magnetic memory. Rather than creating a new memory material, the approach changes how the magnetic state representing a digital bit is flipped.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The microscopic magnetic flips behind digital memory could soon use thousands of times less energy, offering a new way to shrink AI\u2019s rapidly growing power footprint. Artificial intelligence is creating and processing data on an enormous scale. Searches, recommendations, generated images, scientific simulations, and large language models all depend on information that must be repeatedly [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2229,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mathematics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243041","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=243041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}