"The project's energy demands are difficult to overstate for Wyoming, the least populous US state. The initial 1.8-gigawatt phase, consuming 15.8 terawatt-hours (TWh) annually, is more than five times the electricity used by every household in the state combined. That figure represents 91 percent of the 17.3 TWh currently consumed by all of Wyoming's residential, commercial, and industrial sectors combined. At its full 10-gigawatt capacity, the proposed data center would consume 87.6 TWh of electricity annually—double the 43.2 TWh the entire state currently generates."
AI sucks up energy like a vacuum cleaner sucks up dust; it takes everything it can get. But do we really need AI if it comes at such a cost? Who will benefit from AI? Who is pushing it on the public? What are all the hidden costs?
“The promise of automation was to do the mundane so human creativity can flourish. Instead, human creativity is demeaned as mundane so Big Tech’s machines can flourish.” [Thinking Like a Human, by David Weitzner, p. 114]
