AI Boom Faces Power Crisis Without Global Renewable Surge

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The growing demand for AI infrastructure and data centers may lead to energy poverty if not accompanied by a surge in renewable energy adoption, according to Envision's founder Lei Zhang.

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The global AI and data center boom will need acceleration of renewable energy rollout to avoid plunging millions of people into energy poverty as power bills jump, the founder of China’s major wind turbine maker Envision told the Financial Times. “For this AI revolution, lots of people may end up with energy poverty,” Envision’s founder and chief executive officer Lei Zhang told FT. The growing electricity demand from AI infrastructure and data centers is changing the narrative of the need of renewables. Clean…

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