I kneel in the direction of Google HQ chanting my mantra, "the electricity needs of AI supercede the human requirement of an inhabitable planet"
outside the window a choir of Boston Dynamics robot dogs bark the national anthem
I keep asking, shouldn’t there be a cost disincentive to using AI? But my uninformed guess is that this cost is being shunted to municipalities or governments for reasons involving trying to keep tech companies in-state? Seriously, who is taking on that expense?
I hoped once some of this hype dies down, and most of these things are running on ASICs, we'd have excess power from capacity built up in the meantime.
Now, I think it'll stay expanded enough to use all available compute/power.
Might be worse than crypto too, since it's not profitability-bound.