> AI's power usage is performing useful calculations A lot of AI's power usage is going towards generating images, or writing fiction, or doing any number of o

> AI's power usage is performing useful calculations A lot of AI's power usage is going towards generating images, or writing fiction, or doing any number of other things that don't help people improve any kind of physical processes. That's not to get into the GPU usage of video games, which by every economic measure consist of entirely useless calculations. In both AI and crypto you can find people using the resources to perform "useful" and "not useful" calculations; it's all subjective and at the end of the day people have the right to run up their electricity bill on whatever they fancy. > If somebody invents a chip that uses 10% of the power, the industry would gladly adopt it and decrease consumption by 90%. If someone created an invention that used 0.012% of the power to run a blockchain, many chains would gladly adopt it and decrease their energy consumption by 99.988%. In fact that's exactly what Ethereum did, with its move from Proof of Work to Proof of Stake. Now, almost every new chain is PoS. > This is the general pattern in computing, except for crypto. Ethereum did it.