AT&T CEO: AI's power shortages could become America's "next economic social issue" - Fortune Global Forum - video Dailymotion

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AT&T CEO John Stankey told the Fortune Global Forum in 2024 that AI power shortages could be America’s next economic social issue. This year, the Fortune Global Forum will convene October 26–27 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, to explore the strategies that will define the next era of business growth.

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00:00If $5 a gallon gasoline gets people elected or kicked out of office,

00:05two years from now people are going to be looking at the power bill in their house

00:08because there's going to be a shortage of power

00:11and people are going to be consuming it to push the boundaries on AI.

00:16And we're going to be asking ourselves, how did this happen?

00:19Why do we not have an approach here for critical infrastructure on power?

00:23It's going to be necessary to make this happen.

00:25And I tell you, we're probably further along on getting sounder communications policy

00:30that allows for data to be transported to enable the AI revolution.

00:34But I worry about whether or not we're going to have enough power

00:36to make all that work moving forward,

00:39especially when you lay it on with what's required in these data centers.

AT&T CEO: AI's power shortages could become America's "next economic social issue" - Fortune Global Forum

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