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Luckily we live in a society where its ok to use power for personal pleasure, such as running an A/C in the summer which accounts for much more electricity use

Luckily we live in a society where its ok to use power for personal pleasure, such as running an A/C in the summer which accounts for much more electricity use than LLM inference. https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=1174&t=1 https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=1174&t=1

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- turtlesdown11 8mo ago
  > One dairy operation uses more resources than all the datacenters in the united states citation for this claim? https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/10/24/what-we-know-about-energy-use-at-us-data-centers-amid-the-ai-boom/ https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/10/24/what-we-k... > U.S. data centers consumed 183 terawatt-hours (TWh) of electricity in 2024, according to IEA estimates. That works out to more than 4% of the country’s total electricity consumption last year – and is roughly equivalent to the annual electricity demand of the entire nation of Pakistan. By 2030, this figure is projected to grow by 133% to 426 TWh.
- fatherzine 8mo ago
  > U.S. data centers consumed 183 terawatt-hours (TWh) of electricity in 2024, according to IEA estimates. That works out to more than 4% of the country’s total electricity consumption last year – and is roughly equivalent to the annual electricity demand of the entire nation of Pakistan. By 2030, this figure is projected to grow by 133% to 426 TWh. https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/10/24/what-we-know-about-energy-use-at-us-data-centers-amid-the-ai-boom https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/10/24/what-we-k... There are ~10M cows nationally. The average energy consumption is ~1000 kWh/cow annually. Summing up, the entire dairy industry consumes ~10TWh. That is less than 10% of the national data center energy burn. [edit: was off by a factor of 10]
  - Grimblewald 8mo ago
    Not to mention dairy cows store chemical energy for human consumption, so we got some of the energy invested back.
- jprd 8mo ago
  lol what? Can you please cite some sources for this claim?

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> One dairy operation uses more resources than all the datacenters in the united states citation for this claim? https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/10/24/what-we-know-about-energy-use-at-us-data-centers-amid-the-ai-boom/ https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/10/24/what-we-k... > U.S. data centers consumed 183 terawatt-hours (TWh) of electricity in 2024, according to IEA estimates. That works out to more than 4% of the country’s total electricity consumption last year – and is roughly equivalent to the annual electricity demand of the entire nation of Pakistan. By 2030, this figure is projected to grow by 133% to 426 TWh.
fatherzine 8mo ago
> U.S. data centers consumed 183 terawatt-hours (TWh) of electricity in 2024, according to IEA estimates. That works out to more than 4% of the country’s total electricity consumption last year – and is roughly equivalent to the annual electricity demand of the entire nation of Pakistan. By 2030, this figure is projected to grow by 133% to 426 TWh. https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/10/24/what-we-know-about-energy-use-at-us-data-centers-amid-the-ai-boom https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/10/24/what-we-k... There are ~10M cows nationally. The average energy consumption is ~1000 kWh/cow annually. Summing up, the entire dairy industry consumes ~10TWh. That is less than 10% of the national data center energy burn. [edit: was off by a factor of 10]
- Grimblewald 8mo ago
  Not to mention dairy cows store chemical energy for human consumption, so we got some of the energy invested back.
jprd 8mo ago
lol what? Can you please cite some sources for this claim?