Why should I need to trust a corporate white paper/preprint from an AI company? Why should I need to trust a CEO from an AI company? What fine points are omitted?

But, let's do it this way. How does something with the energy demand of only a tenth of a kettle per day per person put such a strain on the UK's grid - a country which boils many kettles every day - that there's a demand to increase power generation by 50%?

Ofgem reported earlier this year, at https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/sites/default/files/2026-02/2026-02... :

"NESO received a total of 229 responses to its CFI. The CFI identified around 140 (50 GW) data centres, the majority of which are likely to receive a Gate 2 offer. 71 (around 20 GW) data centres reported they have achieved financial commitment with FID."

and

"Since November 2024, total contracted offers in the demand queue rose sharply from 41 GW (17 GW Transmission, 24 GW Distribution) to 125 GW (97 GW Transmission, 29 GW Distribution) in June 2025. For comparison, peak electricity demand in GB on 11 February 2026 was 45 GW."

It's almost as if scaling up the median Gemini text prompt use from last year's preprint has very little bearing on the total AI power use.

After all, we know there are far more AI uses than the two presented options of "thirty Gemini queries per day" and "every adult makes one AI video a day".