On-Prem Growing AI power slurpage prompts MPs to examine low-energy computing Committee launches inquiry into emerging chip designs to curb datacenter energy use MPs are probing whether radically different, low-energy chip designs can stop AI from turning the UK's power grid into a bottleneck. The UK's Science, Innovation and Technology Committee has opened a short inquiry into whether so-called low-energy computing could rein in the ballooning electricity demands driven by AI, as model sizes and data volumes continue to scale in ways that make even hyperscale datacenters look modestly power-hungry. Datacenters already account for about 2.5 percent of the UK's electricity use, with demand expected to quadruple by 2030. That puts pressure on a government trying to hit net-zero targets while simultaneously backing AI as a growth driver. At the center of the inquiry is a cluster of emerging technologies that sound more like lab work than a planning application.…