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#24 - AI7 - AI and the Impact of Energy on its Development

Leon Schumacher Season 1 Episode 24

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This audio production is intended to bring new technologies that impact our lives, like digital assets, central bank digital currencies and artificial intelligence in an easy to understand way to a larger audience.

This episode explores the multifaceted relationship between Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the energy sector, highlighting AI's growing energy demands, particularly from data centres, and its potential to transform energy systems through optimisation and innovation. 

It analyses the financial implications and infrastructural needs associated with this trend, including significant investment in grid expansion and renewable energy sources. We will discuss a detailed outlook on electricity consumption forecasts driven by data centres, assesses AI's capacity for reducing energy consumption in various sectors, and explores the security and supply chain challenges presented by increasing reliance on AI and its underlying infrastructure.

The corresponding book Decoding Artificial Intelligence for CEOs can then be found on Amazon next to Leon Schumacher's other publications: http://tiny.cc/cbdc

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