Pretty much all popular writing about AI power usage is dogshit. Half of it confuses Watts and Watt-hours, meaning no qualified person actually critically examined the claims. Water usage is compared to “swimming pools”(no mention of what size) and electricity use is compared to old corded phones, which could mean extreme incompetence, but more likely they are being intentionally misleading.
Pretty much all popular writing about AI power usage is dogshit. Half of it confuses Watts and Watt-hours, meaning no qualified person actually critically examined the claims. Water usage is compared to “swimming pools”(no mention of what size) and electricity use is compared to old corded phones, which could mean extreme incompetence, but more likely they are being intentionally misleading.