By Naureen S. Malik, Bloomberg News
The demand for electricity in the largest American grid is prepared to increase so fast thanks to the AI boom that will be the equivalent of installing two New England networks in the next decade.
PJM Interconnection LLC, which manages the system of 13 states that extends from Washington DC to Illinois, expects the maximum summer demand to jump into almost 58 gigawatts, or 38%, to approximately 210 gigawatts in 2035 from the maximum of last year , according to a report on Friday. That addition is more than double the demand peak record in the New England network.
The use of power in PJM and USA is expected to use an unprecedented clip as the data centers used to execute artificial intelligence proliferate and become much larger. Planned individual facilities would hook enough energy to feed entire cities.
While both the Biden and now President Donald Trump have declared the need to deploy AI for national security and economic interests, the mass increase in expected energy demand probably strives to age the infrastructure and electrical supplies of The United States.
In Davos this week, Trump said the power plants must be built together with the data centers to avoid the delays and reliability problems posed by connecting to an increasingly stressed network.
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