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Peter Gleick Oct 13, 2023

So AI may destroy the planet, but not the way you were thinking.

https://futurism.com/the-byte/ai-electricity-use-spiking-power-entire-country

AI's Electricity Use Is Spiking So Fast It'll Soon Use as Much Power as an Entire Country

Alex de Vries, a data scientist at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, found that AI companies could soon use as much power as a country worldwide.

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Karl Heinz Häsliprinz

@petergleick It's not AI or Blockchain that needs all the electricity, but GPUs. Same hardware for both techs, same senseless "must compute" impulse to generate nonsensical weird outputs.