Why We Don't Know AI's True Energy Impact

As the AI boom sends shockwaves across energy grids around the world, global leaders are rushing to add extra power production capacity as fast as they can. The problem is, no one knows how much energy AI is going to be using a year or five years from now. In fact, we don’t even know how much it’s using right this moment. The result is a mad scramble to maintain energy security in the face of unprecedented uncertainty, with potentially disastrous results for global energy grids and climate goals. “In the past few years,…