Comments by "Paul Aiello" (@paul1979uk2000) on "AI's Hidden Cost: Can Our Power Grids Keep Up?" video.

  1. I think in the long run, A.I. won't consume as much energy as we think it will do. I suspect as A.I. becomes more capable, more of us and more businesses will want to run A.I. at a local level for privacy and security reasons, especially as A.I. becomes more capable and useful, which will likely push more consumers and businesses to not want to use online A.I. services, and that will only get a lot worse as A.I. becomes more useful and even worse once A.I. can have a long term memory so it can change, adapt and learn of our habits. A.I. running at a local level will likely get absorbed into the energy our computers use, and likely just use a little more than what we do now, A.I. isn't what we should be worried about when it comes to power use, it's robotics that could use a heck of a lot more energy than we use today as that won't be absorbed into our current system of computers and will be thrown onto our electrical grid like EV cars are. With that said, there's no real way to know, reason being is that corporations and governments might go crazy with A.I. at such a level that needs an insane amount of power, but I think for personal and corporate use, I think the energy use will be minimum and just a little higher than what we already use, basically, it will be absorbed into what we use as tech gets better and able to do A.I. more effectively, but there is a lot of unknowns in all this as we don't know the limits of how far we'll push A.I. and how far we can push it before there's a drop-off in quality that pushing harder isn't giving us much better results but ends up needing far more energy that it's not worth it. With all that said, we humans will always live within the means of how much energy we produce and will likely use more if we produce more, which renewable energy over the long run could produce far more energy than we use over the coming decades. In any case, we should remember that unlike computers or the internet, which was adding a lot of energy use didn't exist before because we didn't have computers or the internet, A.I. is just another service being thrown onto what is already there, so yes there will be a spike in energy use, especially early on, but I think long term it will be absorbed into our computer use and not make that much of a difference, but robotics on the other hand is another story entirely and is a bit like EV cars, so EV cars and robotics is what's really going to have a massive spike on our energy use.
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