"The most powerful new data center GPUs for AI workloads can consume as much as 700 watts apiece. With a 61% annual utilization, that would account for about 3,740,520 Wh or 3.74 MWh per year per GPU, fueling concerns about the availability of power and environmental impacts" Millions of these chips are being sold every year. https://www.tomshardware.com/desktops/servers/a-single-modern-ai-gpu-consumes-up-to-37-mwh-of-power-per-year-gpus-sold-last-year-alone-consume-more-power-than-13-million-households

Soundtrack: Mack Glocky - Chasing Cars Last week, I spent a great deal of time and words framing the generative AI industry as a cynical con where OpenAI's Sam Altman and Anthropic's Dario Amodei have used a compliant media and braindead investors to frame unprofitable, unsustainable, environmentally-damaging and mediocre cloud

Are we going to run out of electricity to power our data-driven future?

Data center emissions have tripled since 2018. As more complex AI models like OpenAI’s Sora see broad release, those figures will likely go through the roof.