The author also doesn't mention black holes, but there's a huge one at the center of our galaxy which will gladly do away with us and all our problems. Electro

The author also doesn't mention black holes, but there's a huge one at the center of our galaxy which will gladly do away with us and all our problems. Electron arguments aside, computers need matter and a lot of that matter in them is rare, which requires things like strip mining and other non-Earth-friendly activities. If we manage to pull off a walking/talking/joke cracking AI, it and its little AI buds will likely demand every erg of power they can get. Sorta like my dog at dinner time. Also, the amount of compute we are creating is accelerating at a non-linear rate, which is why there was a discussion about Bitcoin using so much energy at such and such a point in time in the future. The speed of networking is not increasing at the same rate as compute.