Karim Abou Zahab

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Technology Now · Are we going to run out of power? | Karim Abou Zahab · 23 Apr 2026 podcast

Everybody's just running towards AI, trying to integrate AI in any single place in their organization.

And in a lot of cases, AI has become a solution looking for a problem.

And basically what we're trying to talk about is that the data center industry does not only revolve around AI.

So AI is the fastest growing part of data centers now.

And International Energy Agency said that AI currently uses 15% of the energy of the data centers.

Now, AI is 15%.

What about the other 85%?

So we have 85% of our data centers doing what we call quote unquote normal IT.

And yes, AI is very worthy to look at, especially when we're talking that the deployments are happening.

And most of the AI deployments actually do not go and see production.

And that is something that could be mitigated if we think in terms of efficiency from the design perspective.

Never.

So basically in the current economy,

there needs to be limitless growth, right?

And energy as of now is not able to keep up with the demands of multiple industries.

And when we're thinking about energy, we need to think about energy generation because that's the use of resources that we can allocate somewhere else.

And again, this is where we actually think of

What if there is not enough energy?

So the wait times in order to jump on the grid to get electricity for data centers are huge.

The wait times to get to renewable energy are even larger.

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