Interesting, thanks for sharing your thoughts. I do wonder, though, how AI is possibly undoing the efficiency gains from data centres of the past twenty years. It seems like we're headed back to square one for a problem we solved a while ago through efficient hardware and cloud consolidation. Simply producing more efficient GPUs won't get us there again.
That being said, your reasoning does convince me AI energy consumption is less of an issue than many make it out to be.
Interesting, thanks for sharing your thoughts. I do wonder, though, how AI is possibly undoing the efficiency gains from data centres of the past twenty years. It seems like we're headed back to square one for a problem we solved a while ago through efficient hardware and cloud consolidation. Simply producing more efficient GPUs won't get us there again.
That being said, your reasoning does convince me AI energy consumption is less of an issue than many make it out to be.