AI And The Energy Equation
Forbes December 22, 2024
As the community of IT leaders and experts ponders the most likely future of technology, in which we outsource more and more cognition to AI, people are also thinking about energy and power.
Had you asked me a few years ago, I wouldn’t have thought that this particular aspect of IT would be so front and center today. It’s also sort of strange to enumerate, because of the way that it contrasts to our human brains. As people, we get our fuel in strange and inefficient ways. By contrast, we know how to power computers – we know their energy needs down to the last detail. Or do we?
This was brought back to me in a thought-provoking talk by...