3 ms·
I doubt it frankly. Computation consumes a lot of energy, true, but it is dwarfed by how much energy we use in transportation and food production. Energy use pe
by xmcqdpt2 4y ago
I doubt it frankly. Computation consumes a lot of energy, true, but it is dwarfed by how much energy we use in transportation and food production. Energy use per capita in most of the Global North is about 75,000kWh per year,
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/per-capita-energy-use https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/per-capita-energy-use
That's like the average person running 27 NVIDIA A100s at max capacity at all times!
- vasco 4y agoYeah but every time we discover a new interesting thing to do with computers the requirements go up by several orders of magnitude. How many more orders of magnitude of energy can we spend on food production from here with current projections of world population to peak in 2100?