The craze in artificial intelligence has so far focused on chips made by Nvidia and apps like OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Underpinning this frenzy is a rush to build the infrastructure needed to train and run generative AI (GenAI) models. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang predicts the sum invested in these data centres will double to $2 trillion in the next five years. Yet the world’s ability to construct, power and
Data centre boom reveals AI hype’s physical limits
