AI processing could consume 'as much electricity as Ireland'

Boffins estimate power needed if every Google search became an LLM interaction. Gulp

The recent spike of interest in AI thanks to large language models (LLMs) and generative AI is pushing adoption of the tech by a wide variety of applications, leading to worries the processing needed for this will cause a surge in datacenter electricity consumption.…

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