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dutchkimble ,

But people from those countries must also be using Google and Microsoft

NeatNit ,

There might be some double counting, but it doesn’t matter - this just illustrates the insane scale of these companies.

filister OP ,

Correction, the insane amount of energy the AI needs

magic_lobster_party ,

Is all of this due to AI? I’m confident most of the energy is spent on other stuff, like data centers. Both Google and Microsoft are cloud providers.

FishFace ,

Comparing huge multinational countries which serve every country to the half of countries with the smallest energy usage is not terribly illustrative.

golli ,

Not just people, but importantly also corporations running their services on Microsoft azure or Google cloud.

magic_lobster_party ,

Bitcoin is estimated to consume 172 TWh, which is way more than Google and Microsoft combined.

https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption

Retiring ,
@Retiring@lemmy.ml avatar

172 TWh per year

Your statement was as useful as the following: A VW Polo car costumes 3000 liters of fuel.

brsrklf ,

In 2023, Microsoft and Google consumed 48 TWh of electricity (24 TWh each).

Your point?

BlackLaZoR ,

Sun consumes 100000000000+ countries power. We have to do something!

ZILtoid1991 ,

But we will soon have AGI, and then you can have your very own JARVIS! Don’t you like Iron Man? Don’t you like super heroes? Don’t you like sci-fi? /s

MonkderDritte , (edited )

To be fair, Iceland only has around 400k inhabitants.

dropout ,

Closer to 400k

MonkderDritte ,

Right, it was a bit over 100k km², memory is a bitch, corrected.

autotldr Bot ,

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Generative AI is taking the world by storm, and its impact is evident across all sectors, including medicine, education, music, computing, and more.

According to a detailed analysis by Michael Thomas, this surpasses the power consumption of over 100 nations, including Ghana, Tunisia, and more (via Tom’s Hardware).

Some of the downsides to advancements in the AI landscape include the degradation of the environment, however, Google and Microsoft are big on renewable energy and have been championing the campaign while seeking alternative power sources.

Elon Musk claimed we’re on the verge of the biggest technology breakthrough with AI, but there won’t be enough power by 2025.

Sam Altman has been exploring a potential alternative power source for OpenAI’s AI efforts, with nuclear fusion at the top of his list.

While nuclear fusion seems like the perfect solution for AI’s power needs due to its non-existent impact on the environment, scientists and researchers say it’s “too late to deal with the climate crisis” and view fission and renewable energy as better options.

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