Two comparisons on the scale of frontier AI infrastructure (dedicated compute clusters for training/running the largest models, not general cloud AI). Electricity : Tracked frontier facilities alone are estimated at around 94.9 TWh … more than Kuwait (92.5) or Colombia (90.4). This doesn’t include general cloud inference or smaller facilities, so total AI related electricity use is likely alot higher. Compute per person : Dividing frontier data center capacity by the global population (8.2B in 2025) works out to be 1.2 TFLOPS per human … already past a budget phone (0.5) and approaching flagship phone territory (2.0), though still well short of a laptop (7.0). Data: Epoch AI (CC-BY), Our World in Data. Full interactive dashboard: https://4billionyearson.org/ai-dashboard submitted by /u/4billionyearson
Originally posted by u/4billionyearson on r/ArtificialInteligence