New Device Could Reduce AI Energy Consumption By 1000 +

Engineering researchers at the US University of Minnesota Twin Cities claim to have demonstrated a state-of-the-art hardware device that could reduce energy consumption for artificial intelligent (AI) computing applications by a factor of at least 1,000! 

AI’s Massive Energy Consumption 

The issue the researchers were aiming to tackle is the huge energy consumption of AI, which is only increasing as AI becomes more widespread. For example, the International Energy Agency (IEA) recently issued a global energy use forecast showing that energy consumption for AI is likely to double from 460 terawatt-hours (TWh) in 2022 to 1,000 TWh in 2026. This is roughly equivalent to the electricity consumption of the entire country of Japan!