You can see here why Capitalism makes reducing power consumption impossible.
Tech companies build a data center wherever there's a power company that says they can sell them juice. Since the more juice they sell the more money they make, they all say, "Surre! Build it here!"
Once built, on those hot days they find they're short of juice, so they buy some from the grid. Somebody somewhere fires up an old coal plant to make up the shortfall.
Regulations need to be put in place that require AI to have its own power supply independent of grid power. Without that, the consumption will rise faster than renewables could power it. True anyhow, but it would at least slow it down
https://cleantechnica.com/2024/06/24/weird-wacky-ways-of-powering-data-centers-are-under-consideration/
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