Staff writer, with cna
Taiwan’s government should reassess its electricity demand projections, as power supply constraints have already affected Wistron Corp’s (緯創) plans to expand its artificial intelligence (AI) computing infrastructure, Wistron chairman Simon Lin (林憲銘) said yesterday.Speaking to reporters after Wistron’s annual shareholders’ meeting, Lin said the company had originally planned to build its second computing center near its existing facility in Taipei’s Neihu District (內湖), but changed course after being informed of insufficient power supply.Instead, the company decided to establish the facility at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University in Tainan, he said.
Wistron Corp chairman Simon Lin, left and president Jeff Lin pose for a photograph during the company’s annual shareholders’ meeting in Taipei yesterday.
“Taiwan underestimated the electricity needed to support AI development at this early stage,” Lin said, adding that the government should rethink and adjust future electricity demand projections to accommodate rapidly growing power consumption from AI computing.Concerns about Taiwan’s power supply have increasingly surfaced as demand from AI-related industries grows.
