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Re:Addressing AI’s energy cost by SamReidHughes on Tuesday June 07, 2022 @11:50PM (#31662983)
We've had basic heating, insulation, and lighting efficiency improvements. Also, population has moved from colder to warmer climates. You can probably count up your personal energy usage and see that it's reduced. LED lighting, CRT televisions obsolete, vehicle efficiency, and so on.
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Re:Addressing AI’s energy cost by Grimburger on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @12:51AM (#31663351)
Residential usage is about 1/5th of total consumption in the US

https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/use-of-energy/

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Re:Addressing AI’s energy cost by SamReidHughes on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @11:41AM (#31669016)
The same facts apply to commercial usage.
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Re:Addressing AI’s energy cost by Teever on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @12:13AM (#31663108)
Yes but where were all these things made? And is the energy that was used to make them accounted for?
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Re:Addressing AI’s energy cost by sdenton4 on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @12:48AM (#31663340)
Meanwhile, people mostly use a couple devices with high energy efficiency that are used for basically everything, instead of twenty lower quality devices...
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