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How utilities are working to meet AI data centers’ voracious appetite for electricity

By Anurag Srivastava, Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, West Virginia University

Across the U.S. and worldwide, energy demand is soaring as data centers work to support the wide and growing use of artificial intelligence. These large facilities are filled with powerful computers, called servers, that run complex algorithms to help AI systems learn from vast amounts of data.

This process requires tremendous computing power, which consumes…

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