Oddbean new post about login | logout Found this post that gives an alternative perspective on energy demand. Read the first section on AI energy use. “But energy demand did not follow in the same way … Between 2010 and 2018, global data centre compute increased by more than 550%. Yet energy use in data centres increased by just 6%.” https://newsletter.humanprogress.org/p/weekly-progress-roundup-35e
I'll read it, but just your quote says demand went up in the study, not down, which is what I'm saying. Compute increased 550% and energy usage 6%, if your projection was right it would've gone up 300% or something and energy usage gone down. That's not what we see empirically anywhere in the world. Where efficiency goes up, new energy demand outpaces it.