Big Tech’s spiking electricity use as it trains artificial intelligence must be reined in by governments in order to maintain stable supplies, the head of the world’s largest transformer maker has warned.
Andreas Schierenbeck, chief executive of Hitachi Energy, told the Financial Times in an interview that no other industry would be allowed as volatile a use of power as the AI sector.
Huge surges in power demand at data centres training AI models, along with a bumpy renewable energy supply, meant “volatility on top of volatility” was making it challenging to keep the lights on, he said.
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