International Energy Agency Executive Director: AI currently requires only 1.5% of global electricity demand.
On October 16, Fatih Birol, executive director of the International Energy Agency, said that the electricity used by artificial intelligence currently accounts for only a small proportion of global electricity demand, about 1.5% of global electricity demand. There is still a lot of uncertainty about how this figure will evolve in the future. By 2035, artificial intelligence's electricity demand will account for a few percentage points of the overall huge increase in electricity demand. Artificial intelligence will promote electricity growth, but it is not the main driver.