The report finds that data centers consumed about 4.4% of total U.S. electricity in 2023 and are expected to consume approximately 6.7 to 12% of total U.S. electricity by 2028. The report indicates that total data center electricity usage climbed from 58 TWh in 2014 to 176 TWh in 2023 and estimates an increase between 325 to 580 TWh by 2028.
I see a lot of people arguing about datacenters and their resource consumption. So i think it is good to have actual numbers on how much resources are being consumed. This post only includes energy consumption because i’m too lazy to look up water consumption.
The public should not have to foot the bill for any of this.
Just let China have this “race”. I’m not afraid of being 2nd place. Who really cares about AI when it’s effect on the concrete world is so minimal and non-deterministic?
Wake me up when we can actually count on a robot making a delivery or stopping a criminal. Generating tokens isn’t doing shit in the real world.
When that is regularly happening without failure, we can just regulate the robots themselves.
China is largely focusing on the only good parts of AI. The scientific data that can be gained from specialized processing. They’re not going all in on chatbots. Even though they’ve got the green energy to to it. So in that respect, they’re already leading. The US is just racing to bottom.
That’s not really that much.
Roughly 10% of all electricity isn’t that much?
For being such an integral and important part of lives of literally everyone - no
