2.4 million agent users are causing the crisis — what happens at 10x?
AI Data Centers Are Eating the Grid. Is There Another Way? (The People's AI: The Decentralized AI Podcast)
“That 2.4 million is causing the current crisis of historic magnitude. What do you think happens when that number grows by order of magnitude? Just 24 million. And that’s not even way off because 24 million is a drop in the bucket. Considering there are about 80 million people that know how to code… About 40 million professional developers. We’re talking about even half the amount of professional developers using agentic coding. Alone, we’ll hit that at 24 million.” — 00:05:27
Context: He walks the host from ~1 billion AI users down to only 2.4 million actual agent users [00:04:42], then argues demand grows exponentially because “humans are not very good at imagining exponents.”