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Episode: OIES Podcast – Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its implications for electricity systems: A focus on the AI arms race and electricity needs
Description: In this latest OIES podcast from the Electricity Programme, Dimitra Apostolopoulou talks to Senior Research Fellow David Robinson and Independent Researcher Plutarco Naranjo about the Oxford Energy Forum (OEF) issue titled "Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Its Implications for Electricity Systems". In this podcast, we provide an overview the OEF and discuss David's and Plutarco's paper titled: "The AI arms race and electricity needs". The conversation begins with a summary of what AI is and how Large Language Models (LLMs) contribute to an increase in data centre energy needs with their training and inference phases. Building on this, David discusses...