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Thanks for this, it was part of what pushed me to dig further, and you were both partly right. Globally, data centres are under a tenth of electricity demand growth to 2030, with industry, cooling and transport far bigger, and AI-focused data centres used about 155 of the 485 TWh all data centres used in 2025. But AI was most of last year's growth, and in the US data centres are around half of all demand growth. Written up here: https://allyburns.com/musings/where-the-power-goes/

Using tools like remotion can help, then AI is not generating massive images, it's helping compose scenes, where the local CPU then renders the video. I use this technique, so my videos may have only 10 seconds of AI generated video in a 10 minute video, whilst still having motion and keeping people's attention through engaging visual elements.

Yup, see article, video uses a lot more, my argument is maybe only one in a hundred is a creator, the rest just consume content, so not everyone will be high energy user of AI