Peter GleickSo AI may destroy the planet, but not the way you were thinking.
https://futurism.com/the-byte/ai-electricity-use-spiking-power-entire-country
Steffen Christensen@petergleick The paper is good, the article is not.
The paper points out that there are not enough GPUs in the world to satisfy the AI growth requirements that a naive "every Google search uses a large language model" would require. You don't have to be worried about LLMs burning down the world if you can't get there from here.
Further, Google is green energy neutral, while Microsoft and Meta are close behind. Amazon intends on getting there in 2025.
@petergleick You can't burn the planet with green energy either, because there are no emissions.
A disappointing article, I recommend reading the paper.