Growing AI Energy Use Sparks Debate
• EQT CEO AI growth requires expanding gas generation capacity to provide reliable 24/7 power.
• Dutch scientist calculates global electricity use for AI could exceed 85 TWh annually.
• AI's massive data processing needs drive up energy consumption to unsustainable levels.
• Gas is the only cost-efficient energy source able to meet AI's electricity demands.
• AI boom incompatible with degrowth ideas of lowering energy consumption.