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Is AI eating all the energy?

actually the energy costs of AI seem pretty reasonable and they shouldn't be a problem

Nicholas Carlini, “How I use “AI”“ …the reason I think that the recent advances we’ve made aren’t just hype is that, over the past year, I have spent at least a few hours every week interacting with various large language models, and have been consistently impressed by their ability to solve increasingly difficult tasks I give them. Alex de Vries is a PhD candidate at the VU Amsterdam School of Business and Economics and the founder of Digiconomist, a research company dedicated to exposing the unintended consequences of digital trends. I don’t have a Photoshop license, so I can’t verify an exact benchmark myself, but let’s roughly estimate illustration software as using something in the range of 30 W (my laptop idling with no graphics programs open) to 300 W (medium-spec GPU running at 100%), depending on how powerful it is.

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