Former Facebook Chief Privacy Officer Chris Kelly said Monday that the next phase of the artificial intelligence boom will focus on becoming more efficient.
As major AI players race to churn out the infrastructure needed to support AI workloads, Kelly told CNBC's "Squawk Box" that the industry will need to streamline these power-intensive buildouts.
"We run our brains on 20 watts. We don't need gigawatt power centers to reason," Kelly said. "I think that finding efficiency is going to be one of the key things that the big AI players look to."
Kelly, who was also general counsel at Facebook, added that the companies able to reach a breakthrough in lowering data center costs will emerge as AI winners.