(C) Common Dreams
This story was originally published by Common Dreams and is unaltered.
. . . . . . . . . .



NextEra Pushes Renewable Plants to Fuel Explosive Demand From AI [1]

['Josh Saul']

Date: 2024-01-25

The amount of electricity sucked up by artificial intelligence is expanding rapidly, with high stakes for tech firms desperate to hook up new data centers to power produced by wind and solar farms, according to NextEra Energy Inc.

“There is an enormous amount of demand being driven across the US economy by the growth in data centers, driven by a lot of things of course, but specifically generative AI,” Rebecca Kujawa, head of NextEra’s renewable development unit, said in a Thursday earnings call. “That growth is pretty explosive at this point.”

[END]
---
[1] Url: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-25/nextera-pushes-renewable-plants-to-fuel-explosive-demand-from-ai?sref=Eee8fiv5

Published and (C) by Common Dreams
Content appears here under this condition or license: Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 3.0..

via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds:
gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/commondreams/

You are viewing proxied material from magical.fish. The copyright of proxied material belongs to its original authors. Any comments or complaints in relation to proxied material should be directed to the original authors of the content concerned. Please see the disclaimer for more details.