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[E-impact] AI Needs More Abundant Power Supplies to Keep Driving Economic Growth

Hesham ElBakoury <helbakoury@gmail.com> Tue, 20 May 2025 19:34 UTC

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These are set of interesting charts.

https://www.imf.org/en/Blogs/chart-of-the-week

As this Chart of the Week
<https://www.imf.org/en/Blogs/chart-of-the-week> shows,
electricity used by data centers alone, already as much as that of Germany
or France, would by 2030 be comparable to that of India, third world’s
largest electricity user. This would also leapfrog over the projected
consumption by electric vehicles, using 1.5 times as much power than EVs by
the decade’s end.

Hesham

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