{"id":276392,"date":"2026-06-19T13:09:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T17:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/19\/is-ai-the-energy-technology-the-world-has-been-waiting-for\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T17:05:35","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T21:05:35","slug":"is-ai-the-energy-technology-the-world-has-been-waiting-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/19\/is-ai-the-energy-technology-the-world-has-been-waiting-for\/","title":{"rendered":"Is AI the energy technology the world has been waiting for?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/stories\/2026\/06\/is-ai-the-next-great-energy-technology\/\">Is AI the energy technology the world has been waiting for?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/stories\/2026\/06\/is-ai-the-next-great-energy-technology\/\">https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/stories\/2026\/06\/is-ai-the-next-great-energy-technology\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-19 13:09:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.weforum.org\">www.weforum.org<\/a><\/p>\n<ul role=\"list\" class=\"wef-1cws6pr\">\n<li class=\"wef-2uxndz\"><span>AI has a voracious appetite for energy and represents a looming crisis that could break the grid and raise everyone\u2019s power bills.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"wef-2uxndz\"><span>AI is also the most software-defined, the most controllable and the most spatially mobile workload ever to consume electricity on an industrial scale.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"wef-2uxndz\"><span>AI could become the technology that finally makes the grid work the way it always should have.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Calling AI a revolutionary energy technology sounds strange. The dominant narrative about AI and energy is the opposite: AI has a voracious appetite for energy and represents a looming crisis that could break the grid and raise everyone\u2019s power bills. Data centres already consume roughly 6% of all electricity in the United States and the United Kingdom. The International Energy Agency projects that global AI data centre electricity demand could more than quadruple by 2030. No industrial energy load in modern history has grown like this. <\/p>\n<p>But the framing of &#8216;AI as load&#8217; is wrong. AI is not just an unusually large new load. It is the most software-defined, the most controllable and the most spatially mobile workload ever to consume electricity on an industrial scale. Orchestrated carefully, power-flexible AI factories \u2014 data centres engineered to modulate their own electricity use in real-time \u2014 become a new energy technology and could become one of the most consequential in history. They could reduce power bills, protect grid reliability and unlock massive power capacity to turbocharge the AI revolution.<\/p>\n<p><h2 class=\"chakra-heading wef-1r3kzwi\">How can we redefine AI as an energy asset, not a liability?<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p>Consider what we usually mean by an &#8216;energy technology.&#8217; Some energy technologies create new supply &#8211; solar panels, nuclear plants and the fusion reactors that are on the horizon. Others reshape how energy moves and is stored \u2014 high-voltage transmission, lithium-ion batteries. A third, quieter category transforms how energy is consumed: heat pumps replaced furnaces, variable-speed motors replaced fixed-speed ones, LED light bulbs&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/stories\/2026\/06\/is-ai-the-next-great-energy-technology\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is AI the energy technology the world has been waiting for? https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/stories\/2026\/06\/is-ai-the-next-great-energy-technology\/ Publish Date: 2026-06-19&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":276393,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/assets.weforum.org\/article\/image\/responsive_large_iMnSbIlNy6qVsPdDDxiV-_SEHR8lwaO57j9yHHswDpY.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64,65,129],"class_list":["post-276392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-energy","tag-nuclear","tag-solar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276392"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276392"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":276394,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276392\/revisions\/276394"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}