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these things are not related however. while AI has made much of it possible, this all traces back to 2016. you can literally watch the cost of living metrics start to rise at a exponential rate starting in 2016, then layoffs in 2020. there was no punishment to companies for being greedy during these times, they have learned the public will just accept anything to get Thier goods and services...
but your energy use argument falls flat when you look things like the steel industry and even just comparable data workloads and simulations that were being run. yes the power usage is astronomical, but when you consider the scaling of the same afformentioned things, they account for the same amount of power consumption...
but this wouldn't even be a issue if nuclear and renewables + batteries were in heavy use instead of ancient coal and gas power plants thanks to lobbying.
I just don't see what argument you're making.
Steel production is necessary for infrastructure. The point is AI is not efficient. It's adding energy load to the grid in the supposed name of doing things more efficiently, but where is evidence of these gains. Data centres drawing huge amounts of power to do what exactly? Run LLMs?
There is the promise and reality. If it was replacing manual labour and freeing humanity to pursue arts, crafts, and scientific inquiry great. But there's no evidence it's doing that.