[simianwords]

what is it as a percentage of all electricity used in the world? as a percentage of air travel? of using netflix? of eating meat?

Population of Ireland is .06% of world's population btw.

[rootnod3]

AI is on track to use more energy than Bitcoin this year. And Netflix and others are activety trying to reduce their usage, whereas all I see on the AI side right now is people scrambling to use more for bigger models in the that at some point something usable might come out of it.

[aleksjess]

Objectively, using as much power as a country with a population of a few millions is a lot of energy