Address by Ashok Kumar, Deputy Director General at Bureau of Energy Efficiency.
4th Edition Sustainable Textiles Summit 2025 | September 17, 2025
Compiled by: Salil Chawla, Director, DFU Publications.
We routinely focus on the carbon footprint of industries like textiles, yet neglect the mounting energy demands of the service sector. As the world accelerates towards Artificial Intelligence, we must urgently consider: what will be the massive energy and heat generation requirements of AI supercomputers? This critical issue deserves immediate attention.
We often focus on industries like textiles when discussing carbon emissions but rarely question the growing footprint of the service sector. With the world racing toward artificial intelligence (AI), we must ask: how much energy will AI supercomputers demand, and how much heat will they generate?
The U.S. is already planning massive power plants to fuel this digital revolution, yet we seem to repeat history—creating problems first, then scrambling for solutions.
AI’s power needs could dwarf anything we’ve seen, and the climate cost may be immense.
Before this technological giant grows unchecked, we need to rethink innovation with sustainability at its core.
Otherwise, we risk trading one crisis for another in the name of progress.
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