For a better sense of scale: it's about 2% of the average US electricity consumption, and about the same as the average electricity consumption of the Netherlands (18 million people)

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tonyhart7 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

Wtf, and this is from 1 company

How many atrophic,xAi,google,Microsoft would be????

having around 5% entire country infrastructure on AI hardware seems excessive no???

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Recursing 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

No this is from just one partnership, my sense is that OpenAI alone wants more than that.

5% to 10% of US electricity going to AI in 10 years is consistent with the current valuations of AI companies.

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bcrosby95 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Around 5% in the next 5 years for AI alone sounds pretty in-line with projections I've seen.

	▲	randomNumber7 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		Isn't this pretty bad for the climate? I don't dare to ask ChatGPT now /S

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udkl 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

For another sense of scale: A 500MW AI-centric datacenter could cost $10 billion or more to build. So 10GW is $200 billion!