{"id":67449,"date":"2024-04-20T19:51:20","date_gmt":"2024-04-21T00:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=67449"},"modified":"2024-04-20T19:51:20","modified_gmt":"2024-04-21T00:51:20","slug":"ai-computing-is-on-pace-to-consume-more-energy-than-india-arm-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=67449","title":{"rendered":"AI Computing Is on Pace to Consume More Energy Than India, Arm Says"},"content":{"rendered":"
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(Bloomberg) — AI\u2019s voracious need for computing power is threatening to overwhelm energy sources, requiring the industry to change its approach to the technology, according to Arm Holdings Plc Chief Executive Officer Rene Haas.<\/p>\n

By 2030, the world\u2019s data centers are on course to use more electricity than India, the world\u2019s most populous country, Haas said. Finding ways to head off that projected tripling of energy use is paramount if artificial intelligence is going to achieve its promise, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are still incredibly in the early days in terms of the capabilities,\u201d Haas said in an interview. For AI systems to get better, they will need more training \u2014 a stage that involves bombarding the software with data \u2014 and that\u2019s going to run up against the limits of energy capacity, he said.<\/p>\n

Haas joins a growing number of people raising alarms about the toll AI could take on the world\u2019s infrastructure. But he also has an interest in the industry shifting more to Arm chips designs, which are gaining a bigger foothold in data centers. The company\u2019s technology \u2014 already prevalent in smartphones \u2014 was developed to use energy more efficiently than traditional server chips.<\/p>\n

Arm, which began trading on the Nasdaq last year after 2023\u2019s largest US initial public offering, sees AI and data center computing as one of its biggest growth drivers. Amazon.com Inc.\u2019s AWS, Microsoft Corp. and Alphabet Inc. are using Arm\u2019s technology as the basis of in-house chips that help run their server farms. As part of that shift, they\u2019re decreasing reliance on off-the-shelf parts made by Intel Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc.<\/p>\n

By using more custom-built chips, companies can lessen bottlenecks and save energy, according to Haas. Such a strategy could reduce data center power by more than 15%.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere needs to be broad breakthroughs,\u201d he said. \u201cAny piece of efficiency matters.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

AI Computing Is on Pace to Consume More Energy Than India, Arm Says (Bloomberg) — AI\u2019s voracious need for computing power is threatening to overwhelm energy sources, requiring the industry to change its approach to the technology, according to Arm Holdings Plc Chief Executive Officer Rene Haas. By 2030, the world\u2019s data centers are on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[13681,15210,2334,34303,34302,9113],"class_list":["post-67449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-computers","tag-data-center","tag-ian-king","tag-yahoo-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67449"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67450,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67449\/revisions\/67450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}