# AI heading to \~150 prompts/day per user and \~8% of global energy by 2040

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2025-05-13
- **Theme:** Energy & AI — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/energy-ai/
- **Source:** Ep. 654 The Intersection of AI and Cryptocurrency with Akash Network (CRYPTO 101)
- **Watch at:** 00:19:48 — https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-654-the-intersection-of-ai-and/id1262351840?i=1000708305733
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/energy-ai/2025-05-13-ai-heading-to-150-prompts-day-per-user-and-8-of-gl-j2w6/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "AI heading to \~150 prompts/day per user and \~8% of global energy by 2040," Ep. 654 The Intersection of AI and Cryptocurrency with Akash Network (CRYPTO 101), 13 May 2025, 00:19:48. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-654-the-intersection-of-ai-and/id1262351840?i=1000708305733

## Quote — verbatim

> Today we are looking at... a billion users... doing about five queries a day, five prompts a day. And that's projected to grow... to about 150 prompts a day. And that's very conservative... The AI energy need alone is, I believe, growing at around 37% year over year.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Inference-side demand math (quote spans into the 00:20:44 block); he cites himself as a "vibe coding" power user at ~1,000 queries/day. The 2040 figure comes later: "AI consumption will be, I believe, 8% of global energy by 2040" (00:36:53).