Similar concerns were raised regarding the energy used to mine cryptocurrencies. It's basically wasted energy - no doubt about that. But this is different. Crypto's potential has been very limited all along, whereas generative AI has numerous potential uses, and we are seeing more and more companies, as well as ordinary people, utilising it.

Great potential uses like the upheaval of the jobs market during a time of political crises lol. Great time to destroy the energy market for the common citizen as well