MIT Technology Review  July 29, 2019 Some predict that in the absence of significant innovation in materials, chip manufacturing and design, data centers’ AI workloads could account for a tenth of the world’s electricity usage by 2025 while others expect data center energy consumption to remain relatively flat over the next few years, in spite of a spike in AI-related activity. These widely diverging predictions highlight the uncertainty around AI’s impact on the future of large-scale computing and the ultimate implications for energy demand. But pessimistic forecasts ignore several important developments that could limit AI’s power grab. One of them […]