NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang highlights AI revolutionizing energy sector for brighter future

From NVIDIA: 2024-06-18 19:40:22

NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang spoke at the annual meeting of the Edison Electric Institute, highlighting the role of AI and accelerated computing in revolutionizing the energy sector. He emphasized the potential for utilities to use AI in energy delivery, such as enabling customers to sell excess electricity. The future of digital intelligence and energy appears bright.

Electric grids are evolving into flexible, two-way systems with distributed energy resources like solar and wind farms. To meet the demands of this transformation, AI and accelerated computing play a crucial role in processing real-time data. Companies like Hubbell and Siemens Energy are leveraging NVIDIA’s technologies to enhance grid efficiency and resilience.

NVIDIA has made significant advancements in energy efficiency for running AI inference, achieving a 45,000x gain over the past eight years. The Blackwell architecture GPUs provide 20x greater energy efficiency than CPUs for AI and high-performance computing tasks. By transitioning CPU servers to GPUs, significant energy savings and carbon emission reductions can be realized.



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