An increase in the demand for electricity from big data providers worldwide is raising concerns about the global climate. Because the pace of clean-energy deployments is too slow to keep up, utilities, power regulators, and researchers in six countries told Reuters that fossil fuels like coal and natural gas will be used shortly to meet the unexpected increase in power demand brought on by the rise of AI and cloud computing.
An increase in the demand for electricity from big data providers worldwide is raising concerns about the global climate. Because the pace of clean-energy deployments is too slow to keep up, utilities, power regulators, and researchers in six countries told Reuters that fossil fuels like coal and natural gas will be used shortly to meet the unexpected increase in power demand brought on by the rise of AI and cloud computing.