Author: Victor Dey Technology Analyst
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AI’s Growing Appetite for Power: Are Data Centers Ready to Keep Up?
As artificial intelligence (AI) races forward, its energy demands are straining data centers to the breaking point. Next-gen AI technologies like generative AI (genAI) aren’t just transforming industries—their energy consumption is affecting nearly every data server component—from CPUs and memory to accelerators and networking. GenAI applications, including Microsoft’s Copilot and OpenAI’s ChatGPT, demand more energy