Zach Dell predicts AI will become the largest consumer of electricity in the world
“a new consumer of electricity has showed up. And it's now the fastest growing and soon going to be the largest consumer of electricity in the world, and its name is AI.”
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disputableAI infrastructure (data centers, compute) becomes the single largest electricity consumer globally, surpassing all other sectors (measured by annual consumption)
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