US spending on fossil fuel power has passed China's, mostly to power the growing number of AI data centers. #aienergy

https://www.carbonbrief.org/ai-boom-means-us-is-now-investing-more-in-fossil-fuel-power-than-china/

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@bhg

Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

Here are the actual numbers

Train Gemini Ultra ~150 GWh
Distill Nano from Ultra ~1–5 GWh / ~1–3%
One Gemini cloud query 0.24 Wh / 0.00000016%
1 year of Gemini cloud serving (~1B queries/day) ~90 GWh / ~60%

👉One Nano on-device query ~0 datacenter-side (phone battery) 0% 👈

Aggregate inference passes the training run in roughly 18–24 months at frontier-deployment scale and that's only counting the per-query number Google chose to publish. Query volume is a rough order-of-magnitude estimate

Gemini Ultra burn would have occurred regardless of Nano deployment.

Nano distill is a one off expenditure of SA grid demand for a day. After that free model with phone recharge.

Maths.

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