Global energy demand will double as the Global South develops
World energy demand will double, driven by the growth of the Global South, the transformation of energy sources and the exponential rise of artificial intelligence.
Global energy demand will double, driven by the growth of the Global South, the transformation of energy sources and the exponential rise of artificial intelligence. That was the view expressed by Ahmed al-Jaber, the UAE’s Minister of Industry and Advanced Technology and head of ADNOC.
In his words, AI has the potential to accelerate the transformation of energy systems and low-carbon development, but the use of AI itself is pushing up energy demand — something nobody expected 18 months ago, when ChatGPT first appeared. A single ChatGPT query takes ten times more energy than a Google search.