New analysis by MIT Technology Review reveals AI’s rapidly growing energy demands, with data centers expected to triple their share of US electricity consumption from 4.4% to 12% by 2028. According to Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory projections, AI alone could soon consume electricity equivalent to 22% of all US households annually, driven primarily by inference operations that represent 80-90% of AI’s computing power.

  • orcrist@lemm.ee
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    4 days ago

    Pop the bubble already. Fuck all the investors, they are gambling on snake oil and that’s their problem.

    • nothx [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      3 days ago

      Fuck all the investors

      Full stop, no further context needed. Fuck all the investors of everything, everywhere, forever.