Artificial intelligence is being deployed at increasing scale, driving growing demand for computing resources and energy, while also offering opportunities to improve the efficiency and environmental sustainability of energy systems. This two-way relationship, referred to as AI-Energy, reflects both the growing importance of reliable, affordable and increasingly sustainable energy resources for AI and the potential of AI to optimize energy generation, transmission, distribution and consumption. It also includes approaches to better coordinate computing and electric power systems to improve energy efficiency and support more sustainable AI deployment.
The Focus Group on Artificial Intelligence + Energy (FG-AIEnergy) will provide an open global platform for collaboration among a broad range of stakeholders. Through pre-standardization activities, it will explore the environmental sustainability of AI computing infrastructure and its interaction with energy systems, including energy efficiency, renewable and low-carbon energy integration, AI computing demand and its impact on electricity grids, and the use of AI to enhance the sustainability of energy systems.
More details are available in the terms of reference.
