AI set to face its day of reckoning as it confronts biggest threat yet — China and other countries want to slash exponential rise in data center power consumption

Governments worldwide are tightening regulations on the construction of data centers due to concerns over their enormous energy consumption and the impact on national climate goals and power grids. According to the Financial Times, countries including China, Singapore and Ireland have imposed restrictions on new data centers in recent years to comply with stricter environmental regulations. Elsewhere, Germany and Loudoun County in Virginia, USA, have introduced measures such as limiting permits for data centers in residential areas or requiring them to contribute renewable energy to the grid and reuse the waste heat they generate. Increased demands of AI The most…