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Una Hajdari

Europe is hungry for AI data centres — but its energy grid cannot feed them

Every time you ask an artificial intelligence chatbot with a question, somewhere, possibly a continent away, a warehouse full of computers is working hard to answer it and a mind-numbing amount of energy is churned to give you a quick reply.

Data centres, the physical locations that house the supercomputers and associated components that underpin the dramatic increase in AI, are critical in our age of advanced data processing.

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