By Naureen S. Malik, Bloomberg News
Electricity demand on the largest U.S. grid is poised to rise so fast thanks to the AI boom that it’ll be the equivalent of installing two New England networks in the coming decade.
Power usage in PJM and the U.S. more broadly is expected to climb at an unprecedented clip as data centers used to run artificial intelligence proliferate and become much larger. Individual facilities planned would guzzle enough energy to power entire cities.
While both the Biden Administration and now President Donald Trump have declared the need to deploy AI for national security and economic interests, the massive surge in expected power demand will likely strain aging U.S. electric infrastructure and supplies.
At Davos this week, Trump said power plants need to be built alongside data centers to bypass delays and reliability issues posed by connecting to an increasingly stressed grid.
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