VentureBeat July 25, 2024
Earlier this month, the Wall Street Journal reported that a third of nuclear power plants are in talks with tech companies to power their new data centers. Meanwhile, Goldman Sachs projected that AI is going to drive a 160% increase in power usage by data centers from now until 2030. That is going to take carbon dioxide emissions to more than double current levels. Each ChatGPT query is estimated to take at least 10 times as much energy as a Google search. The question is: will the exponentially growing cost of training AI models ultimately limit the potential of AI?
VB Transform 2024 tackled the topic in a panel led by Hyunjun Park, co-founder and CEO of CATALOG. To talk...