<p><pre><code> Power requirements and hardware costs doubled every year. If current trends continue, the largest AI supercomputer in 2030 would cost hundreds of billions of dollars and require 9 GW of power.
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The recent AI demand for energy got me thinking philosophically about life. Life, it seems, want to maximize the use of available energy in its environment. Humans is a form of life. Therefore, humans naturally want to spend all the energy available to it. This goes back to entropy & life in which life increases entropy. The life form that increases entropy the most is the most successful because it should in theory be the most efficient.<p>AI energy use is just another giant leap in energy demand for our life form.<p>I also want to point out that cyanobacteria converted so much carbon dioxide into oxygen that it suffocated itself in an event known as The Great Oxidation Event. Now humans are doing the reverse and it is suffocating itself. I wonder if this cycle is irreversible and that our "consciousness" and higher intelligence does not matter when it comes to laws of physics/life. IE. We can't stop ourselves from generating too much CO2 because our laws of nature is no different from the cyanobacteria that made the best use of available energy in such an efficient manner.