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EPRI: Clean Energy, Efficiency Can Meet AI, Data Center Power Demand

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An EPRI report examines how burgeoning power demand from data centers and artificial intelligence can be met through clean energy and efficiency measures rather than new natural gas-fired power plants. The article discusses hyperscale data centers across the U.S. and their potential to double power demand, with focus on implications for utilities like Georgia Power and Dominion Energy in the Southeast.

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EPRI: Clean Energy, Efficiency Can Meet AI, Data Center Power Demand

Report Sees Potential Doubling of Power Demand from 'Hyperscale' Centers

Hyperscale data centers across the U.S. as of 2022 | EPRI

Jun 2, 2024
| K Kaufmann

The burgeoning power demand from data centers and artificial intelligence can be met by other means than new natural gas-fired power plants, according to a new report from the Electric Power Research Institute.