AI Will Be Emissions For Years Before The Nuclear Revolution Begins

AI is power hungry and the companies behind the technology are working hard install nuclear weapons feeding it. But nuclear reactors take a long time to build and AI will need a lot of power before they are ready. So where will it come from? In the US, gas. The AI ​​revolution will pump more gas into the atmosphere.

A new report from the Financial Times detailed what’s to come the amount of gas. As climate change worsened, the world stopped consuming energy sources such as coal and natural gas. US electricity is moving toward renewables and gas-fired power generation has declined over the past decade.

In 2024 it will explode due to data center and AI. According to the Financial Times, the dependence of the US electricity grid on natural gas is only increasing. The United States will add 80 percent more electricity by 2030. That’s 20 percent more than it added in the last five years.

On January 14, President Biden delivered a general rule which paved the way for AI to grow and expand the power base. The order ordered the Pentagon and DOE to lease space to private companies that want to build “gigawatt scale AI data centers.”

As part of the negotiations, companies that want to build on federal land must do so with so-called clean energy. “To support this, the Department of the Interior will identify areas under its jurisdiction that are suitable for clean energy that will support data centers at DOE and DOD facilities, and advance the permitting process for geothermal projects,” it said. “DOE will take steps to promote distributed energy, advance clean infrastructure at the interstate, and support the deployment of nuclear power.”

According to a recent report from the US Department of Energy, data center energy consumption is expected to triple by 2028. coming from including the adoption of electric vehicles, riding on land, using hydrogen, and electrifying factories and homes,” the report said.

Meta is researching nuclear power, but needs power now. The technology company is spending $10 billion in Louisiana on a data center and $3.2 billion on three new natural gas plants to provide power. Microsoft is partnering with Constellation to bring the third phase of the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant online. Last week, Constellation announced that they were buying Calpinea major gas power company, worth $27 billion.

American gas plants pumped more 1 billion of carbon space last year. It is the highest price ever recorded. There are ways to reduce the emissions produced by natural gas, but most of the 80 planned to be built do not have carbon capture systems.

According to the DOE, natural gas power plants and data centers are black boxes. “Although US data centers are increasingly involved in on-site electricity generation, power purchase agreements, and the sale of various carbon credits, the lack of transparency in the details of these activities for all US data center operators hinders overall monitoring,” the DOE said. the report said.

“Along with reducing the scope of this report, this lack of clarity shows that the growth of the data center is being done with little consideration of how to integrate the upcoming products and expand the production/transmission of electricity or the development of the population.”

In an announcement about Meta’s Louisiana data center, Entergy – the company’s energy partnerhe said it would add cleaner, more efficient power plants to its system to meet growing energy demands. It wasn’t big on the actual schedule of his breath. “Meta has pledged to integrate electricity consumption with 100% clean and renewable energy and will work with Entergy to bring at least 1,500 MW of new electricity to the grid through its Geaux Zero program,” the press release said.

The Geaux Zero program is a common cost that encourages the purchase of solar energy. Buying some renewable energy doesn’t mean the carbon will stop being pumped into the sky, just that Meta has promised to buy solar to go with it.

The dream, of course, is for all new data centers and AI systems to drive renewable and nuclear energy. The truth is that nuclear power moves slowly. It can take up to ten years to improve traditional equipment and small advanced machines are untested, untested, and unproven.

It is possible that major technology is on the cusp of a nuclear revolution thanks to AI-generated incentives. But it has to burn a lot of gas to get there before the electricity comes online.