{"id":1722,"date":"2026-08-30T15:46:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T15:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/?p=1722"},"modified":"2026-08-30T15:57:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T15:57:25","slug":"how-much-water-and-electricity-are-we-really-talking-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/?p=1722","title":{"rendered":"How much water and electricity are we really talking about?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eraldkolasi.substack.com\/p\/the-global-energy-and-emissions-footprint\">https:\/\/eraldkolasi.substack.com\/p\/the-global-energy-and-emissions-footprint<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Trying to find realistic estimation of energy and water usage for AI. I\u2019ve read water estimates from \u201cless than most agriculture\u201d to \u201cmore than a city\u201d, and similarly wide estimates of electricity consumption and waste heat\/emissions. \u00a0This paper is one data point that purports to be more accurate, although as with most others the text is cloaked in hyperbole.<\/p>\n<p>Not sure what\u2019s real here, but want to set a marker on the more extreme position.<\/p>\n<p>Note that some analysts also posit that, since the chips involved have a useful life of months before being hopelessly obsolete and requiring replacement, it\u2019s categorically impossible for the industry to make money on scaling up (<a href=\"https:\/\/share.google\/TCs1bLRPT2T6G6rPw\">https:\/\/share.google\/TCs1bLRPT2T6G6rPw<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/eraldkolasi.substack.com\/p\/the-global-energy-and-emissions-footprint Trying to find realistic estimation of energy and water usage for AI. I\u2019ve read water estimates from \u201cless than most agriculture\u201d to \u201cmore than a city\u201d, and similarly wide estimates of electricity consumption and waste heat\/emissions. \u00a0This paper is one data point that purports to be more accurate, although as with most others the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1722"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1722"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1727,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1722\/revisions\/1727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}