United Kingdom, May 23 -- Artificial intelligence (AI) might account for nearly half of global datacentre power by the end of 2025, according to new analysis.

Alex de Vries-Gao, who founded Digiconomist - a platform dedicated to exposing the unintended consequences of digital trends - believes up to 49 per cent of datacentre energy could be represented by AI by the close of this year.

His claims come in a study entitled 'Artificial intelligence: Supply chain constraints and energy implications', published in energy journal Joule.

Alex's research has discovered that AI-specific energy consumption may increase to 23 gigawatts (GW), which is twice the total power usage of the Netherlands.

He also admitted future research could be carried...