AI will consume 2% of global energy within 15 years — conservatively
Greg Osuri, CEO of Akash Network, on why compute should be shared with a decentralized marketplace! (LegendsNLeaders)
“It’s reasonable to expect AI will grow at least as fast as mobile and internet… in the next 15 years we’re going to see an increase from five to 150 queries a day [per user]… we are going to literally grow by 37% year-over-year… the next 15 years, the world will consume 2% — this is a conservative estimate — of global energy supply on AI… Gartner or any of the bigger firms say it’s 8%… Even 2% is an additional 100 nuclear reactors we need.” — 00:22:44
Context: His modeled forecast from ~1B AI users at ~5 prompts/day, 15% adoption growth, 5% queries/year growth, ~5%/year efficiency gains; each GPT-4 call ~3 watt-hours (“a 60-watt bulb burning for an hour gives you 20 prompts”) [00:20:38]. Quote spans into the [00:23:28] block.