Huge growth in AI usage could cause electricity blackouts in US from next year<div class="feat-image">
</div><p>Electricity regulators are concerned that the huge growth in <a href="
https://9to5mac.com/guides/artificial-intelligence/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">AI[/url] usage could lead to power blackouts in the US and Canada as early as next year. The prediction was published shortly after <a href="
https://9to5mac.com/2024/12/11/ios-18-2-release-notes/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">the public release of iOS 18.2[/url] brought many more <a href="
https://9to5mac.com/guides/apple-intelligence/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Apple Intelligence[/url] features online.</p>
<p>Artificial intelligence services like <a href="
https://9to5mac.com/guides/chatgpt/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">ChatGPT[/url] and Apple’s own <a href="
https://9to5mac.com/2024/09/12/apple-intelligence-servers-are-really-basic-says-craig-federighi-and-thats-deliberate/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Private Cloud Compute[/url] servers will see data center power usage double in the course of just four years, and power grids will likely struggle to keep up with this demand … </p>
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Huge growth in AI usage could cause electricity blackouts in US from next year
