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I don't care how rough the estimate is, LLMs are using insane amounts of power, and the message I'm getting here is that the newest incarnation uses even more.
BTW a lot of it seems to be just inefficient coding as Deepseek has shown.
And water usage which will also increase as fires increase and people have trouble getting access to clean water
https://techhq.com/news/ai-water-footprint-suggests-that-large-language-models-are-thirsty/
It would only take one regulation to fix that:
Datacenters that use liquid cooling must use closed loop systems.
The reason they dont, and why they setup in the desert, is because water is incredibly cheap and energy to cool a closed loop system is expensive. So they use evaporative open loop systems.
That increases your energy use though, because evaporative cooling is very energy efficient.
We can make energy from renewable sources.
Fresh drinking water is finite, especially in the desert.