AI Energy Efficiency Will Increase AI Energy Usage!

In this Climate Chat episode, we will discuss how the Rebound Effect (a.k.a Jevons' Paradox) is impacting and will impact computer/data center/AI energy usage. While computer efficiency has improved by a factor of 10 TRILLION in past 80 years, computer energy use has only increased over that period and is expected to grow multiple-fold over the next 6 years as data center and AI energy use soars. We will discuss how improving the energy efficiency of computers will make the problem worse, not better. Previous Climate Chat program "Jevons Paradox and the Rebound Effect": https://youtube.com/live/hv5fwP_3L2Y Energy sufficiency and rebound effects - Concept paper (see Chapter 2 on the Rebound Effect): https://www.energysufficiency.org/static/media/uploads/site-8/library/papers/sufficiency-rebound-final_formatted_181118.pdf Rebound Effects and ICT: A Review of the Literature: https://gossart.wp.imt.fr/files/2014/10/Rebound_Effects_and_ICT.pdf EMERGING TRENDS FOR ENERGY CONSUMPTION WITHIN ICT DEVICES: https://www.ijeast.com/papers/136-141,Tesma503,IJEAST.pdf The Energy Demand of ICT: A Historical Perspective and Current Methodological Challenges: https://ethz.ch/content/dam/ethz/special-interest/mtec/cepe/cepe-dam/documents/people/baebischer/Aebischer_Hilty_2014_Energy_Demand_ICT_History_Challenges_AAM.pdf ---------------- Follow Dan Miller on X/Twitter: @danmiller999 Follow Dan Miller on Bluesky: @danmiller999.bsky.social and @climatechat.bsky.social To join the Zoom discussion, visit Dan's Clubhouse room. The Clubhouse link is provided in Dan's Twitter feed. You can also leave a question in the YouTube Live chat. Please begin your question with "Question:" to make it easy for our mods to spot it. For more Climate Chat episodes, see our YouTube home page: https://www.youtube.com/@climatechat For recent YouTube Live programs: https://www.youtube.com/@climatechat/streams