OpenAI plans to consume more energy than India by 2033

According to OpenAI’s internal plans, published by analyst Lucas Ekwueme, the company is set to increase its electricity consumption by 125 times over the next eight years. By 2033, they will need 250 GW of capacity. That’s more than India’s entire power grid produces, and far more than the capacity of countries like Germany or the UK.

As early as early 2023, OpenAI was consuming a tiny fraction of a gigawatt, but it planned to reach 2 GW by the end of 2025. It is expected that global demand for data center capacity could more than triple by 2030. In the United States alone, additional demand for electricity for data centers is expected to be about 460 TWh by 2030, which is three times the current level of consumption.

The reason for this voracious appetite is the development of modern AI models, which are becoming increasingly complex. Large language models require enormous resources not only for training, but also for daily operation.

Read more about the appetites of artificial intelligence and what steps companies are taking to meet them in the material on dev.ua.

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