Taiwan's power grid can supply AI and chip industry growth through 2035, Taipower says
Taiwan's state utility says it has enough electricity to cover the chip industry's growing needs through 2035, easing a worry Nvidia's Jensen Huang raised on his May visit to the island.
- Taipower chairman Tseng Wen-sheng says supply will "absolutely be enough" for semiconductors out to 2030 and 2035.
- Taipower's own demand forecasts run higher than the chip industry's, and it says it can still meet them.
- AI power demand is a worldwide problem — several U.S. states are questioning whether their grids can handle model training.
- Chipmaking itself eats most of the power: wafer plants use roughly three times as much as memory, advanced packaging and servers combined.
- Warnings of a Taiwan power shortage have circulated for a decade without materializing, and new generating units are coming online at a steadier pace.
Outlook: Power supply looks unlikely to be the bottleneck for Taiwan's AI buildout near term, though each new smaller chip node pushes demand higher.