[anenefan]

A.I. at the moment is in it's relative infancy ... energy efficiency will surely follow in a decade or so after a few dinosaurs die out or perhaps meet a more humorous demise when they are unkindly pegged out on a beach as a sacrifice to the angry weather gods.

Less cooling towers are needed if more of the heat is reused - some cold climate cities would surely benefit from a constant heat source, but some heat could could be used for power generation [1] that removes it from the balance sheet entirely as it's transmitted into space.

A.I. has it's uses, and is a very powerful tool not that I directly use LLMs, but I dare say as for public consumption in the next few years, the govt's around the world will double down on some of it's more tantalising uses like creating graphic or near real movies (in the name of child safety or what not,) or as a writing aide (protecting human creativity - copyrights) and instead much of what will be still legal will be be along the lines of A.I. search slop or existing software that's been slightly tricked up but heavily bloated ... Now with tracking ...

Sadly most of the A.I. assist in searches I've seen, is merely amplifying advertising spiel ... and not necessarily correct.

[1] https://www.ucdavis.edu/curiosity/news/anti-solar-cells-phot... (2020)