My take on AI energy consumption FWIW is roughly as follows:
1. We won’t know until companies tell us. They won’t tell the truth unless forced.
2. It is reasonable to assume it is quite bad because if it weren’t, the companies would say.
3. The damage GenAI is causing to our epistemic environment is the most worrying issue for me. We can (and should) build renewable energy, but a broken epistemic ecosystem has grim social consequences and is very hard to fix.
https://mamot.fr/@Khrys/114569802947548969
Tom Morris
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