How much electricity does AI consume?

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sirnicolaz•about 1 hour ago

Thanks for the breakdown! I myself tried to do some poor man calculation, and using this website https://tokenomy.ai/tools/energy-usage-estimator I have came to the conclusion that 1000 developers using 100k$ worth of tokens in a month (20B) would equal the total estimated energy used to build the Great Pyramid

Ps: yes apparently at Meta there are devs consuming a yearly salary of tokens in a month, according to a recent NYT article https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/technology/tokenmaxxing-a...