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Data Centers and AI demand for electricity provide a forcing funciton to roduce policies designed to provide essential reliable, abundant, affordable energy.

By Jeff Garzik and Ralph Benko It may seem paradoxical. But sometimes shortages can be a shortcut to abundance. Economists call that “a forcing function,” explained by the Interaction Design Foundation as “an aspect of a design that prevents the user from taking an action without consciously considering information relevant to that action. It forces conscious attention upon something and thus deliberately disrupts the efficient or automatised performance of a task.

The hundreds of data centers, presumably harboring millions of servers , that power the Internet consume massive amounts of electricity. So much so that the internet needs, now and for the foreseeable future, the resuscitation of coal-fired power plants to generate that power.

 

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