Canada Has Answer to Energy Needs in AI Race, Ex-Google CEO Says

(Bloomberg) — Canada’s abundant hydroelectricity offers the best way to power booming artificial intelligence servers and win the global AI race — if the country is able to cooperate with the US amid a trade war with President Donald Trump, according to former Google chief Eric Schmidt.

“There’s a real limit in energy,” Schmidt told the TED conference in Vancouver on Friday, citing an estimate that the US industry will need 90 additional gigawatts to not throttle data centers.