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James Capell

EXPLAINED: Why the future of ai is nuclear | Rare Historical Photos

Nuclear fusion at the National Ignition Facility (2016).

Artificial Intelligence and its subsets like machine learning are driving the latest technologies like the best LLMs and creating power demands that current infrastructure might not be able to keep up with. 

According to the International Energy Agency, electricity consumption from data centers could double by 2026. In 2022, data centers consumed approximately 460 TWh and is expected to reach 1,000 TWh in the next couple of years. The equivalent to the entire electrical energy consumption of Japan.

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