Search Results: SustainableAI

Researchers have developed an analog optical computer (AOC) that simultaneously accelerates AI inference and combinatorial optimization with unprecedented energy efficiency. By combining 3D optics and analog electronics in a noise-robust fixed-point architecture, the system achieves 100x greater efficiency than GPUs while eliminating energy-intensive digital conversions.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called on major tech firms to commit to 100% renewable energy for AI data centers by 2030, warning that their soaring electricity demands are unsustainable. With data centers projected to consume as much power as Japan by 2030, Guterres urged the industry to leverage AI itself for efficiency gains.