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

Side-eyeing every single one of you who is enabling this. futurism.com/the-byte/ai-elect

@baldur Countdown to some techbro jumping in with "Yeah, but how much electricity does *normal* intelligence use?!!"

@Tak AI grifters are way ahead of you. There was already a preprint paper back in March arguing that generative AI was more environmentally friendly than human artists. 🙃

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