AI’s ‘overblown’ energy demand predictions echo the projected great horse manure crisis:

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AI’s ‘overblown’ energy demand predictions echo the projected great horse manure crisis: ‘Overblown projections of a data center boom…already looking far-fetched’
By Marc Morano
January 30, 2025
 
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/01/29/net-zero-risks-leaving-britains-ai-strategy-dead-on-arrival/

By Jeremy Warner

UK Telegraph Excerpt:

Speaking via a video link to global elites in Davos last week, Donald Trump said the US would need to double the amount of energy it produces to satisfy the ambitions of the AI hyper-scalers.

This was a far bigger estimate than even the highest such prediction I’d seen up until that point – that of the management consultants McKinsey, which forecast that global data-centre demand might grow by 240GW between 2023 and 2030, and that in the US they would absorb some 12pc of all the power generated.

That’s a long way below what Trump seems to imagine, but it would still require a massive upscaling of both US power generation and distribution. And already plans are well advanced to meet that demand.

https://www.climatedepot.com/2025/01/30/ai-overblown-energy-demand-predictions-echoe-the-projected-great-horse-manure-crisis-overblown-projections-of-a-data-centre-boom-already-looking-far-fetched/