Amazon, Nvidia say all the options on the table to eat AI, including fossil fuels

Oklahoma.I house – Amazon and Nvidia This week said the number of oil and gas managers that all options are on the table to include artificial intelligence, including fossil fuels, such as natural gas.

The technology and energy industry gathered at Oklahoma -City at the American Energy Hamm Institute to discuss how the US can meet with Growing energy needs at AI Data Center.

Large technology companies were put mainly into renewable power, trying to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, but they are now moving through a changed political environment. President Donald Trump has committed himself to combating climate change when he seeks to increase fossil fuel production, in particular natural gas.

Currently, public recognition of the technology industry is growing that gas will need, at least in the near future to help the II.

“To have the energy required for the network, this will need the entire above approach for a certain time,” said Kevin Miller, Vice President of Amazon Global Data Centers, during the Thursday discussion. “We are not surprised that we will need to add some thermal generation to meet the needs of the short term.”

Amazon remains focused on reducing carbon emissions, Miller said. This is the largest corporate buyer of renewable energy sources and invest in advanced nuclear and carbon capture technologies to reduce the effects on the energy consumption environment.

But these advanced technologies will not go online until the 2030s, and Amazon needs stable and safe power, Miller said.

“We are very obvious that clients’ requirements for potential are primarily on our priorities list, and therefore access to power is in the first place what we focus on,” Miller said. “And we have the goal of becoming Net-Zero Carbon as a company by 2040 and is very focused on it.”

Nvidia is also focused on environmental impact, but wants “all options on the table” when AI is confronted with the energy crisis, said Josh Parker, Senior Corporate Sustainability.

“After all, we need strength. We just need power,” Parker said on the panel. “We have some customers who really prefer pure energy, and some customers who don’t care much,” the head said.

Anthropic co -founder Jack Clark has called on developers of data centers realistically referred to the energy sources currently available. Anthropic estimates that up to 2027 need 50 gigawat new power, which is equivalent to about 50 nuclear reactors. The AI ​​requirement can help lead to the development of “new and new sources” of the authorities for a long time, he said.

The idea of ​​using coal, however, was met with concern. Recently, Trump has signed an order aimed at raising coal production, citing demand from II. Amazon and Nvidia executives did not respond directly when they asked if they believe that coal plays a role in II.

“You have a broader set of options than just coal,” Clark said. “We definitely consider it, but I don’t think I would say it’s at the top of our list.”