The Distributed Future

Will the shift in AI to decentralization eliminate the need for hyperscale data centers?

As power industry planners respond to the massive electricity demands of AI data center compute, they may be missing seismic shifts happening in the underlying approaches to AI compute. Tech companies are on the verge of a change in AI model training that would reduce the requirement for large data centers in single locations. The good thing is that the power industry is kind of already prepared for this change. We just don’t know it.

Several technology-disruption trends are converging in artificial intelligence right now, and the power industry might be missing it. Industries fundamentally change when breakthroughs occur in one or multiple of four vectors. These vectors are;