# AI energy needs grow 5x per year with model size

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2024-11-25
- **Theme:** Energy & AI — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/energy-ai/
- **Source:** Greg Osuri \| Trump's impact on crypto x AI, why DePIN is inevitable, and Akash Network revenue ATH's (Proof of Coverage Media)
- **Watch at:** 00:21:01 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rp_LL6tPDFU&t=1261s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/energy-ai/2024-11-25-ai-energy-needs-grow-5x-per-year-with-model-size-e6yd/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "AI energy needs grow 5x per year with model size," Greg Osuri \| Trump's impact on crypto x AI, why DePIN is inevitable, and Akash Network revenue ATH's (Proof of Coverage Media), 25 Nov 2024, 00:21:01. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rp_LL6tPDFU&t=1261s

## Quote — verbatim

> As LLMs get larger and larger and larger, the amount of energy they consume also goes in proportion to the size of the LLM that's being trained... the growth of energy needed every year is about half an order magnitude — that means every year we are \[5\]x-ing the amount of energy we need to develop the state-of-the-art models for that year.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Asked what major trends will shape the world; opening of his AI energy-bottleneck thesis.