NVIDIA on Thursday announced a partnership with a power industry R&D organization EPRI to use AI to solve the problems facing the electrical grid. Perhaps the irony is that these problems are due to the increasing demand for electricity from AI.
Open Power AI consortium, which includes multiple electrical utility and tech companies, Says It will use the Domain -related AI model to be used to develop new ways to tackle issues that predict the power industry in the coming years. These models will be open and available to researchers in academia and industry.
The power industry is facing increasing demand from the United States and from somewhere else, as AI increases the need for computing power. The demand for electricity is expected to increase by 4 % annually in the coming years, According to To the International Energy Agency, more than 2023 data.
In addition to the NVDIA and EPRI, consortium includes PG&E, Con Edison, Bridge Energy, Duke Energy, Tennessee Valley Authority, and Enova, Naum’s Energy and Water Company. On the tech, both Microsoft and Oracle are members.
In an attempt to stay beyond the trend, tech companies are running to secure productivity as electricity has turned into a competitive advantage from a simple line item.
Over the past year, tech companies have consisted permanently new contracts. They have been widely spread to renewable energy projects, mostly encouraged for the low cost of solar, modification, and the speed at which it can be deployed.
Microsoft, for example, recently added 475 MW solar energy to its major renewable portfolio. Last year, it became anchor investor in a $ 9 billion renewable development project, and earlier in the year he said he was working to deploy the Brock Field Asset Administration. 10.5 Gigwat Renewable power in the United States and Europe, they all expect to come online by 2030.
But although new sources of electricity may be the most clear answer to losing power shortages, they are not the only one.
A recent study says that when the demand on grid peaks, there is no sensitive time for the period when demand is low, which can open an additional 76 GB capacity in the United States, it is not a significant amount, which is about 10 % peak in the United States.
It is likely that among others, there are solutions to which this new consortium will look for.