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.
Our masters have decided it’s more important to let some 19 year old generate misleading information on the fly than it is to keep people’s refrigerators running.