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New analysis by MIT Technology Review reveals AI's rapidly growing energy demands, with data centers expected to triple their share of US electricity consumption from 4.4% to 12% by 2028. According to Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory projections, AI alone could soon consume electricity equivalent to 22% of all US households annually, driven primarily by inference operations that represent 80-90% of AI's computing power.

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[–] orcrist@lemm.ee 6 points 13 hours ago

Pop the bubble already. Fuck all the investors, they are gambling on snake oil and that's their problem.

[–] OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Why doesn't someone just ask chatgpt how to make it use less?

[–] OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

I did it myself

Lol I just saw there's two 4s