AI uses a lot of energy. Recently, there have been many headlines about companies' energy usage soaring as they increase their power usage to run AI. Google and Microsoft both recently announced they are now off target for their Net Zero plans and will have to work hard to get back on track.

Adam and Simon discuss why AI uses so much power and what is being done to try to reduce it.

There are lots of stats and links in this episode:

https://www.ft.com/content/383719aa-df38-4ae3-ab0e-6279a897915e

https://submer.com

https://blog.veoliawatertechnologies.co.uk/the-water-footprint-of-ai-data-centres

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/jul/02/google-ai-emissions

https://www.ft.com/content/61bd45d9-2c0f-479a-8b24-605d5e72f1ab

https://query.prod.cms.rt.microsoft.com/cms/api/am/binary/RW1lmju

https://theshiftproject.org/en/article/unsustainable-use-online-video