Hacker News with Generative AI: Energy Consumption

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.
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.
Charted: The countries using most energy per capita (visualcapitalist.com)
Air conditioning causes around 3% of greenhouse gas emissions (ourworldindata.org)
Ireland's datacentres overtake electricity use of all urban homes combined (theguardian.com)
Google and Microsoft consumed more electricity than many countries did (twitter.com)
Google and Microsoft consume more power than some countries (tomshardware.com)
Google and Microsoft now each consume more power than some fairly big countries (techradar.com)
China Surpasses Europe in per Capita Energy Consumption (oilprice.com)
AI is poised to drive 160% increase in data center power demand (goldmansachs.com)
ChatGPT consumes 25 times more energy than Google (brusselstimes.com)