Jonathan Koomey is a researcher who has been an author of Berkeley Lab research on the impacts of Data centers, interviewed here by Trevor Noah.
I’ll be interviewing Koomey myself in just a bit, will update on what I find out.
Jonathan Koomey is a researcher who has been an author of Berkeley Lab research on the impacts of Data centers, interviewed here by Trevor Noah.
I’ll be interviewing Koomey myself in just a bit, will update on what I find out.
A single app ChatGPT vs appliance TV energy consumption is an apple to oranges comparison.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1116327/ai-energy-usage-climate-footprint-big-tech/
“The closed AI model providers are serving up a total black box,” says Boris Gamazaychikov…Without more disclosure from companies, it’s not just that we don’t have good estimates—we have little to go on at all.
This is similar to the power usage of refineries and LNG plants. Those industries stopped publicizing their very high electricity draws (and/or the use of some of their fossil fuel combustion to make on-site electricity) back in the noughties.