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New estimates put frontier-model inference at 0.31 Wh per query, rising to 3.91 Wh for long reasoning and 0.73 GWh/day at 1B queries, but agentic workloads complicate the picture. The post Energy use of AI inference estimates and efficiency opportunities appeared first on David Mytton .
US data center electricity use is around 180 TWh today and credible forecasts point to 400-600 TWh by 2030, but chips, grids, politics, and the changing shape of AI workloads make estimates difficult. The post AI data center energy in 2026 appeared first on David Mytton .
The ability to complete no longer hinges solely on how many features you can build. The engineering gap between a two-person startup and a hundred-person org has collapsed. The post The hard part was never building appeared first on David Mytton .
Near term, expect more self-provisioned power while transmission and substations catch up. Long term, nuclear is a perfect fit for data centers. The post AI s power problem: the slow grid appeared first on David Mytton .
Google has published the first breakdown of an in-production, global fleet-level AI system serving real queries. Results show per text prompt energy consumption of 0.24 Wh. The post The environmental impact of Google Gemini AI text prompts appeared first on David Mytton .
How to move from London to New York. Considering US visas, getting a US bank account, dealing with US / UX tax, and other logistics for the move. The post The logistics of moving from London to New York appeared first on David Mytton .
Now we have a number for AI energy consumption, what can we use it for? What else do we need to know for it to be useful? The post ChatGPT energy usage is 0.34 Wh per query appeared first on David Mytton .
Analyzing the difference between energy and power estimates from software models vs a hardware analyzer in video communications. The post Model, estimate or measure? What matters in video energy use appeared first on David Mytton .
Energy carbon aren’t the only environmental impacts of computing, but are the public health impacts overstated? The post Overestimating data center public health costs appeared first on David Mytton .
Even for AI training workloads, data center demand response remains an academic exercise - intriguing but impractical. The post If only data centers would participate in demand response appeared first on David Mytton .
