Second AI Energy Council meeting looks to forecast future demand | Computer Weekly

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The UK AI Energy Council met to discuss how the national grid can support rapidly rising power demand from AI workloads. The meeting focused on forecasting compute growth, identifying likely AI adoption sectors, and planning energy upgrades for datacentres and related infrastructure. Officials tied the discussion to the UK AI Opportunities Action Plan and the wider goal of expanding compute capacity over the next five years. Google’s sustainability report also illustrated the scale of the challenge by showing a sharp increase in datacentre electricity demand despite emissions reductions.

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