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AI’s energy boom calls for balancing growth and sustainability
As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes essential in sectors affecting our daily lives, its rising energy demands are creating new challenges for our energy systems. Compared to traditional search engines like Google, AI-powered chatbots consume much more power per interaction, up to 10 times more. This raises serious questions about the long-term energy security as well as environmental impact of AI’s exponential demand growth and its influence on global energy markets.
An international event aims to tackle this issue and more. CERAWeek, an annual world-renowned energy conference organized by S&P Global, formerly Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA), convenes over 450 C-Suite executives, 80 ministers and top officials, and 389 media representatives, with more than 10,000 participants from over 2,050 companies across 80 countries for dialogue on the agenda ahead as the world enters a new era of energy transition.
CERA Energy Week 2025, which just ended in Houston, Texas, a few weeks ago highlighted how AI growing demand is influencing the energy sector’s priorities and investment.
There has been a shift in the tone of these conversations around the globe. From the optimism of COP28 two years ago, where the ADNOC (UAE national oil company) CEO Sultan Al Jaber called for…
