The angle here is a bit of a baffler - people spend money on to use an AI product, then companies spend that money on the resources they need to provide the pro

The angle here is a bit of a baffler - people spend money on to use an AI product, then companies spend that money on the resources they need to provide the product. The only thing that would get an angrier article was if they don't spend the money on resources, then people arc up and whine that profit margins are too high. There is a problem with data centres using energy in the EU and US. Both those polities have been squeezing the energy market for decades and are in long energy-per-capita downtrends. If people had behaved rationally and let the nuclear industry flourish in the 80s instead of going all-in on fossil fuels, we'd have had a shot at avoiding this. Scapegoating AI and other new uses for energy will not help undo decades of poor economic management. If the communists in China managed to figure this out then the western powers have no excuses.