Data Centers and Energy Consumption: The European Challenge

The expansion of data centers, fueled by the increasing demand for computational resources for artificial intelligence, is creating new challenges for power grids in Europe. Network operators are finding themselves having to find innovative solutions to meet the growing demand for energy.

The need to power high-density servers, often equipped with the latest generation GPUs for training and inference of large language models (LLM), requires a robust and flexible electrical infrastructure. This scenario is pushing network operators to experiment with new strategies to optimize the use of existing resources and ensure a reliable energy supply.

For those evaluating on-premise deployments, there are trade-offs to consider carefully. AI-RADAR offers analytical frameworks on /llm-onpremise to evaluate these aspects.