Generative AI's Energy Needs Are Reshaping Our World

https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-energy-use

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blondie9x•16m ago

This doesn't include the energy for mining and chip production either. Can you imagine if it did?

Then when you take into account the amount of water used to cool the data centers as well as part o extraction and production process? Things get insane then https://www.forbes.com/sites/cindygordon/2024/02/25/ai-is-ac...

simonw•9m ago

If I'm interpreting this right it's estimating that ChatGPT's daily energy usage is enough to charge just 14,000 electric vehicles - and that's to serve in the order of ~100 million daily users.

moralestapia•6m ago

I was about to post this exact thing, simon.

Seems ... low? And it will only get more efficient going forward.

I don't get why this is supposed to be a big deal for infrastructure since there's definitely way more than 14,000 EVs out there and we are doing well.

blibble•4m ago

> We used the figure of 0.34 watt-hours that OpenAI’s Sam Altman stated in a blog post without supporting evidence.

what do you think the odds of this being accurate are?

zero?