Governments are now fully aware of the potential for AI to streamline administration, improve decision- making, provide data-driven insights, and create citizen-centric services, as well as being a key component of increasingly digital economies.
They play a critical role in supporting the general adoption of these technologies and fostering innovation for consumers and businesses despite the real concerns over energy demand and sustainability impacts.
It is incumbent on the technology industry and all potential adopters of AI and accelerated computing generally to ensure that secure, scalable, and completely sustainable infrastructure is available to deliver the maximum benefit of AI to all. We can bend the energy demand curve to decouple AI growth from energy consumption.
Government use of AI
The UK Government’s AI Opportunities Action Plan gives a detailed overview of how it will develop AI with specified growth zones and a focus on public services. It extends to infrastructure, skills development, and unlocking public and private sector data to become a global leader.
Similarly, the Irish Government has developed its own National AI Strategy, which was updated by the new government and in response to European Union (EU) AI regulations. It aims to increase the potential of Ireland’s research community to have a serious and significant impact on the global AI landscape.
At the EU level, the AI Act has provided a clear framework for local regulation transposition, offering safeguards for development without hindering innovation. This is supported by numerous stakeholders, including the EU AI Alliance promoting trustworthy AI, the public and private partnership AI Coalition, and the EU AI Champions initiative.
This is all backed by real investment, with a €200 billion fund that will include European AI gigafactories and partnerships with other key jurisdictions investing in an AI future, such as the United Arab Emirates.
Sustainability of AI
The issue at the heart of this wave of adoption and rapid pace of development in AI and accelerated computing is that it must be done sustainably.
Already, the data centres being either adapted or designed for AI workloads are using large amounts of energy, often straining national grids and threatening decarbonisation goals. Currently, data centres are thought to account for around 1% of global electricity consumption. In large economies such as the US, China, and the EU, data centres account for around 2-4% of total electricity consumption; in Ireland, it could be over 20%. Estimates are that AI-driven demand will see data centre capacity growth at up to 22% per year until 2030.
If governments are to ensure that AI does not become a barrier to sustainable development, supporting rather than threatening decarbonisation goals, they must be provided with AI and accelerated computing infrastructure that is efficient, scalable, secure, adaptable, and sustainable.
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