By 2027, it can require as much energy as possible to power artificial intelligence per year, as it currently does to keep the lights on in Sweden or the Netherlands.

While big tech companies like Meta and Google build costly AI infrastructureCEO of AI chipmaker Nvidia, the third largest company in the world by market capitalization, says the answer to the world's energy needs may be nuclear.

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“Nuclear is a wonderful way forward as one of the energy sources, one of the sustainable energy sources,” Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. Bloomberg said on Friday. “It won't be the only one. We will need energy from all sources, and we will balance the availability and cost of energy and sustainability over time.”

^{Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images}

Huang he also told reporters that although AI will use more electricity, it will make up for it with “tremendous productivity”.

Huang's remarks follow news that Microsoft is relaunching Three Mile Islanda nuclear plant that has been closed for five years. Other AI leaders, like Sam Altman of OpenAI, have said that Nuclear power is a solution to AI's power requirements. Altman even invested 375 million dollars at Helion Energy, a startup working to build the world's first nuclear fusion power plant.

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It is undeniable that AI takes considerable energy in power. Google Environmental Report 2024released in July, showed a nearly 50% increase in emissions. Google attributed much of the increase to the energy needed for its data centers and supply chain.

“As we further integrate AI into our products, reducing emissions may be challenging due to increased energy demands from AI's greater computing intensity,” Google said in the report.

Nvidia stands in between 70% and 95% of the AI ​​chip market. Hers the four largest customerswhich account for over 40% of its revenue, are Meta, Amazon, Google and Microsoft.

Nvidia's market cap was 2.953 trillion dollars at the time of writing.