Artificial intelligence is everywhere: it’s designing new proteins, answering Internet search questions, even running barbecues.
Stargate has attracted significant attention from both high-profile investors and U.S. President Donald Trump, underscoring its prominence in the tech and AI sectors.
Shortly after his inauguration, Trump publicly backed Stargate—a venture valued at up to $500 billion and funded by leading industry stakeholders—to accelerate U.S. leadership in AI development.
But the data centers and other infrastructure needed to develop and run the technology are incredible electricity hogs.
With Trump’s declaration of a “national energy emergency”—an undisguised ploy to increase fossil-fuel production
If Stargate and the many other companies developing AI platforms do not insist on cleaner and more efficient energy, they will only aid in the destruction of our planet.
Developers must first train the AI model on vast stores of data, which takes countless hours and requires enormous computing capabilities.
Training one ChatGPT precursor consumed enough electricity to power 120 average U.S. homes for a year.
Even as commercial energy demand continues to grow, people are already seeing higher residential energy prices in some regions where thirsty technologies such as AI are taxing the grid.
While technology companies push AI, we need to push them for not just small innovations in efficiency but big ones that keep the energy footprint of the U.S. reined in.