Thanks for catching, you are right that the average USA home is 10.5MWh/year instead of kWh. I was mistaken. :)
Regarding the remainder, my point is that the scale of modern frontier model training, and the total net-new electricity demand that AI is creating is not trivial. Worrying about other traditional sources of CO2 emissions like air travel and so forth is reasonable, but I disagree with the conclusion that AI infrastructure is not a major environmental and climate change concern. The latest projects are on the scale of 2-5GW per site, and the vast majority of that new electricity capacity will come from natural gas or other hydrocarbons.
Thanks for catching, you are right that the average USA home is 10.5MWh/year instead of kWh. I was mistaken. :)
Regarding the remainder, my point is that the scale of modern frontier model training, and the total net-new electricity demand that AI is creating is not trivial. Worrying about other traditional sources of CO2 emissions like air travel and so forth is reasonable, but I disagree with the conclusion that AI infrastructure is not a major environmental and climate change concern. The latest projects are on the scale of 2-5GW per site, and the vast majority of that new electricity capacity will come from natural gas or other hydrocarbons.