U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm has revealed that President Joe Biden’s administration has been talking to major technology companies to invest in climate-friendly electricity generation to meet their surging demand. The ongoing artificial intelligence (AI) boom has been driving a surge in power demand with the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) predicting that data centers will gobble-up up to 9% of total electricity generated in the United States by the end of the decade, up from ~1.5% currently, as reported by Scientific…
