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Re:Addressing AI’s energy cost by bmitc on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @01:27AM (#31663584)
According to the below EIA article, things are getting worse worldwide.

> Global electricity consumption continues to increase faster than world population, leading to an increase in the average amount of electricity consumed per person

https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=44095#:~:tex....

Re:Addressing AI’s energy cost by mlyle on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @02:03AM (#31663825)
Well, sure. You have developing countries... developing, in addition to the (difficult to quantify) outsourcing effects that I mentioned above.

Note that I really want electricity usage to go up a lot, too. It's just overall primary energy usage that we want to stay level or go down. That's why I used the primary energy usage metric. After all, moving to an electric car or replacing natural gas heating with a heat pump "increases electricity usage."