You’ve most likely heard it:
“AI is wasteful. These fashions burn vitality. It’s unsustainable.”
Okay. Let’s speak about that.
Do you know that watching Netflix for one hour burns as a lot vitality as producing as much as 500 AI photographs?
Or that the common PC gamer operating a high-end GPU makes use of as a lot or extra wattage as a knowledge middle inference move?
Tens of millions of individuals run intensive calculations daily, to not perceive the universe, to not unlock new science, however to simulate taking pictures somebody in ultra-high decision in a fictional world with ray-traced shadows.
And no one bats a watch.
We don’t complain about energy when it entertains us. We solely complain when it challenges us.
AI isn’t the primary time GPUs have been used at scale — it’s simply the primary time they’ve been used for one thing that really issues.
