A seemingly obvious solution to this problem is to increase the world's renewable energy infrastructure so we can meet AI's energy demands without dumping more carbon into the atmosphere. But that's easier said than done. Adding new, renewable energy sources in the US is time-consuming and full of red tape.
“Utilities really don’t like adding renewable power plants to their systems,” Stoner says. “They stress them, they add a lot of peak current at times of the day that are not the same as they are if the system doesn’t have those sources. They resist, and they hum and they haw.”