FILE PHOTO: President and Chief Investment Officer of Alphabet and Google Ruth Porat attends the 2026 Infrastructure Summit of government officials, corporate executives, and labor leaders, in Washington, D.C., U.S., March 11, 2026. REUTERS/Kylie Cooper/File Photo

US needs more energy development to power AI, Google president says 

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DENVER, March 23 : The U.S. may not be scaling electricity fast enough for the expansion of artificial intelligence, Google's President and Chief Investment Officer Ruth Porat said on Monday, speaking about the vast amounts of power needed to scale the company's AI data centers. 

"We are concerned that we are not full throttle on energy,” she said at the CERAWeek conference in Houston, Texas. 

Source: Reuters

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