At Cisco live emea In Amsterdam, The Networking Giant Launched a Number of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Datentre infrastructure products and operated up over Some of the TRICKY ARICKY ARICKY ARONTING Workloads Make of Current Systems, that have been a Subject of Discussion and Concern Since Chatgpt Went Mainstream at the End of 2022.
Last Year, National Grid Ceo John Pettigrew Said Ai Would Be a significant factor In an anticipated Sixfold increase in datacentre power requirements between now and the mid-2030s, and a more recently published Rand Research Report Estimated that AI-Driven Compute Bold Add 68GW (Gigawats) of Power Demand Worldwide by 2027-almost as much as much as is electricity as is consumed by california alone-and over 325GW by 2030.
Tom Gillis, Senior Vice-President and General Manager of Cisco's Security, Datacentre, Internet and Cloud Infrastructure Group, Spoke of an Approaching Information POINTION POINTION POINTIN HOW ACENTRES FIT for the AI Era.
And in Conversation with Computer Weekly on the Fringes of the Show, Cisco Executive Vice-PRESIDENT and Chief Product Officer Jeetu Patel Said That Whil The Firm Rightly ACKNOWLEDGES It believes that it is helping keep things in the right direct on This issue.
“The larger sustainability is what we should keep in mind is that our products are gotting more and more efficient from a power percetic,” said patel.
However, He Continued, If the Use Case That Naturally Arises from this Improving Efficiency is that Cisco Users Feel Comfortable Running more Running more and more ai workloads Wer Consumption Probably liquid-cooled, electronics.
“The way I think about this is that you have to get ai to a point where I was intelligent outcomes come about from ai – because it IS Smart enough – and that's the race right now. Once we get there, ai will be able to help us solve a lot of power problems and sustainability problems, ”said patel.
Trump's impact on the environment
Asked Whether or Not the Second Trump Administration's Environmental Policies – Which Include ankreased Commitment to Expliteing The Us's Fossil Fuel Reserves and The Country's Withdrawal from the Paris Agreement That AIMS to Limit Global Heating to 1.5˚c – Would Impact Cisco's Sustainability Goals, Patel Said it was too early to tell how things would pan outwards out 4.
However, he said, it is clear that tech industry today finds its itslf in bot a computer- and energy-angstrained environment, particularly in Regard to the AI WORKOLADS HAWE.
“We will see some major breakthroughs on that front that reduce the cost of computer, and therefore reduce the cost of power consumption,” He said.
“For example, DeepseekDeepsek might have actually been very good for the environment, because what it did was taqt the models to train at a lower cost and Identify Techniques that can be more.
“This then will allow you to get many, many more models Built at a Fraction of the cost of what you could do,” He suggested.