Hacker News with Generative AI: Energy Consumption

ChatGPT burns SoftBank dollars listening to you thanking it (theregister.com)
Conventional wisdom holds that being polite to AI chatbots makes them respond better, but no one stops to think how much energy that politeness is wasting.

Artificial Intelligence, Software, Energy Consumption

6 points by rntn 5 days ago | 0 comments

AI Energy Use in Everyday Terms – By Marcel Salathé (engineeringprompts.substack.com)
I’ve discussed AI energy use from several perspectives in previous posts (here, here, and here), but this time I wanted something simpler and easier to grasp. What if we compared the energy used by a chatbot over an entire year to everyday things we all do?

Artificial Intelligence, Energy Consumption, Comparisons

9 points by absqueued 23 days ago | 2 comments

The environmental burden of the United States' Bitcoin mining boom (nature.com)
Bitcoin mines—massive computing clusters generating cryptocurrency tokens—consume vast amounts of electricity. The amount of fine particle (PM2.5) air pollution created because of their electricity consumption and its effect on environmental health is pending.

Bitcoin, Environment, Climate Change, Energy Consumption

6 points by croes 23 days ago | 0 comments

Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index (ccaf.io)
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License

Bitcoin, Cambridge, Energy Consumption, Index, Cryptocurrency

20 points by adrian_mrd 135 days ago | 10 comments

AI Data Centers May Consume More Electricity Than Entire Cities (cnbc.com)

Artificial Intelligence, Energy Consumption, Environment, Data Centers, Cities

58 points by belter 154 days ago | 80 comments

Oxide cuts data center power consumption in half (oxide.computer)
Here’s a sobering thought: today, data centers already consume 1-2% of the world’s power, and that percentage will likely rise to 3-4% by the end of the decade. According to Goldman Sachs research, that rise will include a doubling in data center carbon dioxide emissions. As the data and AI boom progresses, this thirst for power shows no signs of slowing down anytime soon. Two key challenges quickly become evident for the 85% of IT that currently lives on-premises.

Data Centers, Sustainability, Technology, Energy Consumption

18 points by dochtman 169 days ago | 2 comments

Walking in short bursts consume 20-60% more energy than walking continuously (phys.org)
A team of pathophysiologists at the University of Milan has found that climbing stairs or walking for short bursts allows people to consume 20% to 60% more energy than if they do the same activity nonstop for the same distance.

Health, Exercise, Science, Energy Consumption

61 points by wjSgoWPm5bWAhXB 185 days ago | 32 comments

Charted: The countries using most energy per capita (visualcapitalist.com)

Energy Consumption, Data Visualization, Global Comparisons

8 points by vinnyvichy 266 days ago | 1 comments

Air conditioning causes around 3% of greenhouse gas emissions (ourworldindata.org)

Climate Change, Environmental Impact, Energy Consumption

14 points by therabbithole 271 days ago | 3 comments

Ireland's datacentres overtake electricity use of all urban homes combined (theguardian.com)

Ireland, Data Centers, Energy Consumption, Sustainability

52 points by nemoniac 277 days ago | 56 comments

Google and Microsoft consumed more electricity than many countries did (twitter.com)