“Electricity should not be restricted” Active development of “domestically produced” generative AI Electricity demand has also increased due to expanded use of KDDI, SoftBank, etc., and countermeasures are urgent

Domestic companies' movements surrounding large-scale language models (LLM), which serve as the foundation for running generative AI, are becoming active. In this monthKDDIYaSoftbank、Panasonicannounced new initiatives in rapid succession. On the other hand, what is feared is the explosive increase in demand for electricity. There are predictions that traffic (amount of information) in 2040 will reach a maximum of 348 times from 20, and ultra-large-scale infrastructure models with trillions to tens of trillion parameters are also expected to appear in the future. To support the expansion of generative AIdatacenterConstruction has been carried out one after another, and experts have pointed out that “situations where utilization of generative AI is hindered due to power restrictions should be avoided.”