By Wangmin Estes
Liberal Arts Science Academy
In the afternoon, session 3 of State of Affairs was going on. A proposal about limiting the energy usage of AI in the State of Affairs room. Delegates Wright and King started out by stating that AI data centers consumed so much energy that it was causing black outs for people in the state. To fix this problem Wright and King propose to limit the energy use for AI data systems to 8% for the entire state and 10% for the county. They say that these limitations will allow AI to grow without harming the people.
The idea is that when the state is using 8% of the energy for AI data centers, no more data centers can be built unless the state or country supplies their own energy. Another delegate asked about how the companies will know how much energy they have left, and the answer was that there would be a tracker to ensure that the state knows how much energy they have left.
In the closing statement made by delegates Wright and King, they made several more strong points. They mentioned that the “energy consumption will double by 2030” which would make the power outages and blackouts even morecommon (Wright). In the end the authors of the proposal defended their proposal so well that it passed unanimously.
