India, Feb. 15 -- Why is Big Tech turning to power generation, and what are the lessons for India? AI looks weightless because it travels by fibre and appears "wirelessly" on screens. Increasingly, it is turning into an industrial process that converts electricity into prediction (and heat). Training large models such as ChatGPT and Claude is energy-intensive; but the process of inference, the serving of billions of queries and searches, is many orders of magnitude hungrier in the aggregate. As AI scales, the limiting factor may no longer be data or code or chips but something far older: electricity, and the question of how it can be delivered reliably, at scale. According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), data centres used roughly ...