💻 **AI could account for nearly half of datacentre power usage ‘by end of year’**
“_The IEA estimates that all data centres – excluding mining for cryptocurrencies – consumed 415 terawatt hours (TWh) of electricity last year. De Vries-Gao argues in his research that AI could already account for 20% of that total._”
🔗 https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/22/ai-data-centre-power-consumption.
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The political narrative around nuclear energy is so stupid that the only way to fix it is by creating so much demand that it is impossible to keep our collective heads buried in the sand.