# AI will consume 2% of global energy within 15 years — conservatively

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2025-04-11
- **Theme:** Energy & AI — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/energy-ai/
- **Source:** Greg Osuri, CEO of Akash Network, on why compute should be shared with a decentralized marketplace! (LegendsNLeaders)
- **Watch at:** 00:22:44 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMx6G0ZOxeo&t=1364s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/energy-ai/2025-04-11-ai-will-consume-2-of-global-energy-within-15-years-romv/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "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), 11 Apr 2025, 00:22:44. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMx6G0ZOxeo&t=1364s

## Quote — verbatim

> 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.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

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.