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865 AI guzzles electricity — and Big Tech is hiring the people who can get it

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FP Tech Desk @ Firstpost Tech · 01/15/2026 07:45 EDT

AI guzzles electricity — and Big Tech is hiring the people who can get it

Data compiled by Workforce.ai for CNBC shows energy-related hiring surged by 34 per cent in 2024, nearly matching the previous year’s pace and sitting a solid 30 per cent higher than pre-AI levels in 2022, when ChatGPT first sparked the generative AI boom.

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