The AI and Data Power Shift

Emails. Texts. Social media. Google searches. This post. All of them require energy. How much? This much...So far.

AI is transforming the economy in more ways than one. So far, in Australia, AI is still considered something of magic fairy dust: scatter it on existing products and services, and magic happens, not grasping just how transformative AI will be. And that’s problematic.

There’s much more that can be—and has been—written about the future of AI, its applications in domains from warfare to finance to healthcare, and the ethics of its development and use.

But what we want to address here is its energy implications.