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> In the 80s some people also said that our whole world energy would go to computations in the future. And look today. Today we consume twice as much energy as
by simgt 2y ago
> In the 80s some people also said that our whole world energy would go to computations in the future. And look today.
Today we consume twice as much energy as we did in the 80s (and that's mostly coming from an increase in fossil fuels consumption). Datacenters alone consume more than 1% of global energy production, that doesn't include the network, the terminals, and the energy necessary to produce all of the hardware.
- huijzer 2y ago> Datacenters alone consume more than 1% of global energy production Energy-use or electricity-use? Only about 20% of total energy use is electricity [1]. I went through the math for EUV machines in more detail at https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=huijzer#42600790 https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=huijzer#42600790. [1]: https://ourworldindata.org/energy/country/united-states https://ourworldindata.org/energy/country/united-states
- xnx 2y ago> Today we consume twice as much energy as we did in the 80s Who's "we"? Worldwide we've gone from 4.4 tons/person to 4.7 tons/person (7% increase) from 1980 to 2023: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/co-emissions-per-capita?tab=chart&country=~OWID_WRL https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/co-emissions-per-capita?t...
- simgt 2y agoEnergy consumption, not CO2 emissions, 90TWh in 1980 to 180TWh now: https://ourworldindata.org/energy-production-consumption https://ourworldindata.org/energy-production-consumption