Watt’s Up with AI? Plugging the Data-Driven Revolution
By Sharad Mehendra, Joint Managing Director & CEO, JSW Energy
As the CEO of JSW Energy, I am acutely aware that the AI revolution is not just transforming industries through automation, predictive analytics, and enhanced decision-making—but also exponentially increasing the demand for electricity,creating a significant business opportunity for us.
The astonishing facts of AI-driven energy demand
Recent studies and industry reports reveal the astonishing scale of this demand:
* Data centre power consumption is doubling rapidly: By 2030, India’s data centres—driven heavily by AI workloads—are projected to require between 50–57 TWh annually, about a 3.5–4x increase from 2024 levels (13–17TWh).This will represent approximately 2.6–3% of India’s total electricity consumption in 2030.
* Energy intensity of AI training: Training a single large language model with over 175 billion parameters (e.g., GPT-3) typically requires about1,287M Who felectricity. This is roughly equal to the annual usage of 120 average U.S. households. The cumulative...
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