Bill Gates says that "We don’t have to worry about AI’s power consumption"

Artificial intelligence requires high energy consumptionboth electricity and water, to function. It is a growing concern… except for Bill Gateswhich defends the idea that the apples that come in, by the ones that come out…

The founder of Microsoft is one of the world’s leading experts in renewable energyas it manages several funds to support initiatives to develop new technologies that generate clean energy. It has a curious theory to explain Why we shouldn’t worry too much about artificial intelligence’s power consumption.

Bill Gates has spoken at an event in London organised by his venture capital fund Breakthrough Energy. His position is: “Let’s not go overboard with this issue.”

AI consumption and savings, according to Bill Gates

Bill Gates’ theory says that, indeed, AI consumes a lot of electricity, but it also helps save energy:

“Data centers consume, at the most extreme, 6% of all electricity. The question is, will AI accelerate a reduction beyond 6 percent? And the answer is, absolutely,” Gates said, according to collect TechSpot.

Bill Gates reasons that AI is already helping to save energy by optimizing the use of the electrical grid in companiesor by fine-tuning water cooling in the data centers themselves. Similarly, if AI helps complete tasks faster, it will also save some energy.

Bill Gates is not wrong in what he says, the problem is that The savings that AI will offer cannot be quantifiedbut the electrical consumption it carries out is quantified.

Currently, data centers consume between 2 and 6% of all energy, but there are studies that This figure will rise to 14% by 2030.

It has been proven that A query to ChatGPT consumes 10 times more energy than a Google searchwhich means double carbon emissions of data centers by 2030.

On the other hand, Bill Gates only talks about electricity consumption. But AI also generates a large water consumptionto cool the powerful servers in data centers.

Perhaps to make up for it, the former Microsoft CEO gives a pessimistic figure: “The increase in electricity demand will prevent us from achieving the goal of zero emissions by 2050. Another ten or fifteen years would be more realistic.”

Bill Gates has opened an interesting debate: AI can save more energy than it consumesThe founder of Microsoft says yes, but artificial intelligence has yet to prove it. Time will give and take reasons.

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Tags: Artificial intelligence, Bill Gates, Industry, Environment