MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that the power consumption of data centres will more than triple in the current decade and the country will build more nuclear power units.
"The most important and fundamental task is to ensure the constant, stable and reliable supply of large volumes of energy to data centres, " Putin said at the "AI Journey" conference in Moscow on Wednesday.
"Therefore, plans for their location must be closely aligned with the further development of the entire national energy infrastructure, including advanced, modern and eco-friendly coal-fired power generation, as well as other clean energy sources such as nuclear power, " he said.