{"id":855,"date":"2025-12-22T13:50:44","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T13:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/weathernuthaven.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/22\/ai-is-draining-the-grid-and-the-power-solution-is-sitting-idle-right-next-door\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T13:50:44","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T13:50:44","slug":"ai-is-draining-the-grid-and-the-power-solution-is-sitting-idle-right-next-door","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weathernuthaven.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/22\/ai-is-draining-the-grid-and-the-power-solution-is-sitting-idle-right-next-door\/","title":{"rendered":"AI Is Draining the Grid\u2014and the Power Solution Is Sitting Idle Right Next Door"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Data centers are already among the world\u2019s hungriest power users, and artificial intelligence (AI) is pushing their energy consumption to new heights. The\u00a0International Energy Agency\u00a0expects data centers\u2019 electricity use to more than double by 2030, reaching roughly 1,000 TWh.\u00a0That\u2019s a growth rate four times faster than the overall grid. In some scenarios, AI-optimized facilities could [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.powermag.com\/ai-is-draining-the-grid-and-the-power-solution-is-sitting-idle-right-next-door\/\">AI Is Draining the Grid\u2014and the Power Solution Is Sitting Idle Right Next Door<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.powermag.com\">POWER Magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img width=\"1400\" height=\"861\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image lazyload\" alt=\"commercial-industrial-rooftop-solar-envato\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.powermag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/commercial-industrial-rooftop-solar-envato.jpg\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.powermag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/commercial-industrial-rooftop-solar-envato.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/www.powermag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/commercial-industrial-rooftop-solar-envato-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.powermag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/commercial-industrial-rooftop-solar-envato-1024x630.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.powermag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/commercial-industrial-rooftop-solar-envato-768x472.jpg 768w\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Data centers are already among the world\u2019s hungriest power users, and artificial intelligence (AI) is pushing their energy consumption to new heights. The\u00a0International Energy Agency\u00a0expects data <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weathernuthaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weathernuthaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weathernuthaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weathernuthaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/weathernuthaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weathernuthaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weathernuthaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weathernuthaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}