Pure gasoline is the strategic benefit of America who accepts the AI race – watts with that?
By Karen Harbert
Nowadays there are countries around the world in a new race for primacy of artificial intelligence (AI), which will define economic and technological competition in the 21st century. Since global powers such as China accelerate investments, America's ability to quickly scale the calculation capacity depends on a performance that depends on abundant and available energy. While many energy sources play a role, there is one that can offer reliability, flexibility and scalability to keep America at the top of the race: natural gas.
Provide the energy to support exponential calculation growth through the further development of the AI infrastructure. From California to Texas to Virginia, data centers appear at an unprecedented speed, each of which requires extensive electricity infrastructure. Goldman Sachs Research estimates that the electricity requirement requirement will grow by 160% by 2030.
Without an appropriate energy infrastructure, America's AI ambitions are throttled. The race for AI primacy depends on our ability to scale our energy infrastructure in order to satisfy the growing demand and at the same time maintain reliability, affordability and security for data centers, for companies and for production and for our families.
Of all the available energy sources in the USA, natural gas is uniquely positioned in order to support the quick demand growth required for America in order to lead the path to AI without endangering reliability or affordability. With more than 2.8 million miles pipeline networks, extensive storage systems and abundant natural gas resources, the USERDGAS industry will strategically serve as the backbone of a scalable energy system that can reliably correspond to increasing energy requirements.
We currently have a seat in the front row for the story with the possibility of accelerating the structure of the huge natural gas pipeline system in order to meet the increasing energy requirements of data centers. Pipeline development projects help to ensure that new and existing consumers ensure a consistent and reliable energy supply for new large demand centers and existing consumers.
Every year, more than 21,000 companies register for their manufacturing processes, heating requirements and business tasks to use natural gas. The cost effectiveness is unsurpassed, with natural gas saving more than half a trillion dollar more than half a trillion dollar in the past decade.
The data centers have evaluated the reliability of the offer in a premium: 78% of the data centers surveyed had electricity failures between 2017 and 2020, with unplanned downtimes cost a few than $ 100,000 per incident. Such losses of performance risk corrupt data, compliance with critical services and even melting servers. Since only each of 650 natural gas customers organizes a planned or unplanned natural gas failure in a certain year, natural gas is a clear solution.
Natural gas continues to drive clean energy in the electricity sector. Since 2005, natural gas has been responsible for 60% of CO2 emission reductions in electricity generation. In the course of the energy sector, natural gas will continue to play an important role in promoting sustainable progress.
The partnership between natural gas and AI can position American business and manufacture at the top of the innovation. It can increase the standard of living and increase economic growth in a way that has not been seen since the industrial revolution. It will strengthen our national security and keep America on the global stage as a production giant.
The innovative relationship between AI and natural gas also creates a virtuous cycle – while the natural gas -KI itself offers the technology great opportunities to make natural gas distribution smarter, more efficient and clean. Advanced AI can optimize energy exploration, improve the repairs and improvements of the system and create a cleaner, more efficient and less costly natural gass system. Further innovations in renewable natural gas and hydrogen mixture will continue to drive a more efficient energy system with lower emissions.
The United States has always started the challenge of global competition through innovation, resilience and strategic investments. In the 1960s it was about reaching the moon. Today it is about leading artificial intelligence, maximizing our economic skills and winning this race against competitors such as China. According to a report by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Us -Erdgas offers the critical competitive advantage that America can use to advance.
Natural gas is the key to ensure that America wins in this race. The political decision -makers must recognize the critical intersection of energy and AI competitiveness. The expansion and modernization of the natural gas infrastructure is necessary to keep up with increasing demand. An optimized permissible reform is therefore of crucial importance to support American innovations. The operations are high and the competition is violent, but with natural gas that takes our progress, America is well equipped to first exceed the finish line.
Karen Harbert is President and CEO of the American Gas Association.
This article was originally published by Realclearergy and provided via Realclearwire.
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