Fun exercise. I think though you are missing the biggest energy consumption by humans: food.
8.2 billion people x 2200 calories per day x 1.16222 watt hours per calorie x 365 days in a year = 7.7PWh and growing by population, minutes the effects of semiglutides!
Anyways... That probably should be in the human equation too
Cool thought experiment. I think at some point though, you run into the hard limits of the size of the economy, since data center GWs are far more expensive than human GWs. If you're using 22,000 TWh, at 80% utilization, then that's ~3TW of DC capacity by 2033. With current rates of ~$20B/GW of capacity, that's $60T in spending from now until 2033, not even considering GPU replacement.
You can ask Claude one more question: how can we use AI to reduce our energy consumption through maybe better productivity or even better materials, like batteries or better planes, cars or manufacturing. If AI is supposed to make us more productive, lets challenge it to make us so much more productive we break even on its energy use.
Fun exercise. I think though you are missing the biggest energy consumption by humans: food.
8.2 billion people x 2200 calories per day x 1.16222 watt hours per calorie x 365 days in a year = 7.7PWh and growing by population, minutes the effects of semiglutides!
Anyways... That probably should be in the human equation too
Cool thought experiment. I think at some point though, you run into the hard limits of the size of the economy, since data center GWs are far more expensive than human GWs. If you're using 22,000 TWh, at 80% utilization, then that's ~3TW of DC capacity by 2033. With current rates of ~$20B/GW of capacity, that's $60T in spending from now until 2033, not even considering GPU replacement.
You can ask Claude one more question: how can we use AI to reduce our energy consumption through maybe better productivity or even better materials, like batteries or better planes, cars or manufacturing. If AI is supposed to make us more productive, lets challenge it to make us so much more productive we break even on its energy use.