AI’s hunger for power can be tamed

The artificial intelligence hype that made Nvidia Corp. the world’s biggest company has come with a price for the world’s climate. Data centers housing its powerful chips are gorging power and belching carbon dioxide, and sobering figures now reveal the extent of the problem. Data centers will use 8% of US power by 2030, compared with 3% in 2022, according to a recent report from Goldman Sachs Group Inc., as their energy demand grows by 160%.