I mean, if that's a metric, so did the local cannery in my town. Not to say that power consumption isn't a concern, but it's healthy to get some context. The interview they're sourcing for the consumption numbers is way more nuanced than the article. www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

Anecdotally, seeing where the big corpos are going with this, they're looking to offload a lot of that cost to running models locally. Makes some sense, charging users for both the compute and energy cost. What that does to the energy cost in 5, 10 years is anybody's guess. I don't know, at least.

The local cannery probably produces something useful. Like, cans of stuff.

Pretty sure your cannery wasn't using as much energy as Ireland