According to ChatGPT: If all the money currently being poured into AI were converted into $1 bills and literally burned for energy, it would generate roughly enough electricity to power the global AI/data-center boom for about a year. The rough math:
- ~$700 billion in AI infrastructure spending
- A $1 bill weighs ~1 gram
- That’s ~700,000 metric tons of cotton/linen paper
- Paper contains ~16 MJ/kg of chemical energy Result: ~3 petawatt-hours of heat ~1 petawatt-hour of usable electricity after power plant losses Current AI/data-center electricity demand estimates are now in roughly the same range. submitted by /u/Tricky_Condition_279
Originally posted by u/Tricky_Condition_279 on r/ArtificialInteligence
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