The Rise of Artificial Intelligence and the Significance of Its Energy Demands

January 23, 2025--Written by Paul Wiseman for Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Debates about the place of artificial intelligence (AI) in society--both in utility and in energy demand--have come to the forefront in the last five years. During that time, AI purveyors have begun to realize that the general power grid cannot possibly grow fast enough to meet their skyrocketing demands. So they have scrambled to find power off-grid, from geothermal, field-harvested natural gas and other grid-independent sources.