Silicon Photonics and the Looming Datacenter Power Crisis
2 Min Read August 7, 2025
AI growth is driving datacenter power demand. Silicon photonics offers a path to lower interconnect power and new opportunities for chipmakers.
The growth of artificial intelligence (AI) has put datacenter electrical power consumption on an unsustainable path. Implementing silicon photonics to cut datacenter interconnect power will help, and could eventually allow datacenters to operate without today’s power constraints, at the same time opening new opportunities for semiconductor suppliers.
