{"id":1224,"date":"2025-07-17T19:56:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T19:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/1224\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T19:56:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T19:56:08","slug":"can-australias-energy-grid-keep-up-with-the-demands-of-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/1224\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Australia&#8217;s energy grid keep up with the demands of AI?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you asked ChatGPT how much power artificial intelligence uses, it would tell you: &#8220;the amount of energy artificial intelligence uses can vary hugely, depending on the type of model and its usage.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>By some estimates, that response alone requires around 10 times the electricity of a Google search and with more than 400 million active users of ChatGPT every week, that extra energy demand begins to add up fast.<\/p>\n<p>So can Australia&#8217;s energy grid keep up with the demands of AI and the data centres behind them?<\/p>\n<p>Guest: Gordon Noble, \u00a0Research Director of the Institute for Sustainable Futures at the University of Technology SydneyProducer: Grace Stranger\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you asked ChatGPT how much power artificial intelligence uses, it would tell you: &#8220;the amount of energy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1225,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,1772,75,1773,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-1224","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-au","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-data-centres","14":"tag-environment","15":"tag-rn-breakfast","16":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}