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The Hidden Cost of Every Query You Send
Some numbers I couldn't stop thinking about while researching:
- A ChatGPT query uses 10x more energy than a Google search
- US data centres consumed as much electricity as all of Pakistan in 2024
- 98% of AI data centre energy goes to training and infrastructure — not your query
- Ireland's data centres now consume 22% of the country's total electricity
The article covers:
- The actual scale of the problem with real IEA/Gartner numbers
- The grid stress hitting Virginia, Ireland, and Oregon right now
- Neuromorphic chips achieving 70,000x energy reduction vs GPUs in research
- Photonic chips and why light beats copper at data centre scale
- Why Jevons' Paradox means efficiency gains alone won't save us
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