oo1 ,

Ah yeah, just choose a different energy souce. Simples.

Have you seen the growth in % of renewable (incl, nuc biofuel and waste) electricity generation over the past 30 years.
(36% i in 1990 , dropped to about 33% in late 2000s up to 38% recently) this is global, IEA figures.

There have been two years since 1990 when renewable electricity output has grown faster than total electricity demand.
2008/9 recession and 2020 covid.
The only way renewables will come close to meeting current electricity consumption is actually to start reducing those demands.

If we start transerffing gas( domestic heating), and petrol( low-capacity road transportation) onto the electricitry grid then the scale and speed of renewables needs to ramp up inconcievably quickly - it has grown fast over the past decade, but it hasn't been cheap nor has it been fast enough to keep up with current demands.

TBH I don't know where AI lines up next to EVs in scale of potential extra demand, probably lower but still an added demand (unless it can substitute for other stuff and improve efficiency somehow).

Electricity source is not really a choice, it is resource and tech constrained many sources are needed; the cheapest fuels will continue to be in the mix used so long as demand keeps increasing so fast.

Maybe, If you ran all AI in peooles houses in cold countries in winter, it'd substitute for heating - that'd be one way it could reduce its impact. Or maybe it can get its act together and spark widespread, frequent, deep, long lasting recessions in economic activity.

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