Nvidia announced on Thursday that it is working with EPRI, an Energy Industry Organization, to use AI to solve problems facing the electricity grid. Perhaps ironically, issues are largely caused by the increase in the demand for power by AI itself.
Consortium AI Open Power, which includes a range of electrical services and technology companies, she says It will use what is known as AI models specifically for the sector to design new ways of dealing with problems that the energy industry is planned to face in the coming years. The models will be open and available to researchers throughout academia and industry.
The electricity industry is facing increasing demand from data centers in the United States and elsewhere, as Ai increases the need for computational power. Electricity demand is expected to increase by 4% per year in the coming years, according to In the International Energy Organization, almost twice as high as 2023.
In addition to Nvidia and EPRI, the consortium includes PG & E, Con Edison, Constellation Energy, Duke Energy, The Tennessee Valley Authority and Enowa, Neom’s Energy and Water Company. On the technological side, Microsoft and Oracle are both members.
In an attempt to stay in front of the trend, technology companies are struggling to ensure the production of capacity, as power has been transformed from a simple line element into a competitive advantage.
During the last year, technology companies have steadily made new contracts. They have been largely distributed to renewable energy projects, which are mainly promoted by low costs, the formation of solar energy and the speed at which it can grow.
Microsoft, for example, recently added 475 Megawatts solar energy to the fairly large portfolio of renewables. Last year, an Ankara investor in a $ 9 billion renewable energy project managed by the Acadia and earlier in the year said that it is working with Brookfield’s assets management to develop 10.5 gigawatts Renewable energy in the US and Europe, which are expected to come to the internet by 2030.
But although new sources of energy can be the most obvious response to loss of power deficiencies, they are not the only ones.
A recent study found that with the use of use when demand on network tops, including shift duties that are not sensitive to time in times when demand is low, an additional 76 GB of capacity could be unlocked in the US that it is not a minor amount of about 10% of the US.
It is likely that these are the types of solutions, among other things, that this new consortium will explore.
