AI and energy demand: “numbers are often fairly small but sound big because they’re not given with any context of how much energy or water we use for everything else.”

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Link. I have been waiting for somebody to do this.

“De Vries estimated how much energy would be used if all of the servers delivered in 2023 were running at full capacity. It came to around 5 to 10 TWh; a tiny fraction of the 460 TWh that is used for all data centres, transmission networks and cryptocurrency.”