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What country? Sir Lanka? This isn't a useful comparison as is, I'll see if I can dig up actual numbers.
Following for the results of your work here so I can use it in the future.
From this 2023 paper, looks like if all Nvidia AI servers are running 24/7, you'd get an energy consumption of about 5.7–8.9 TWh per year. Nvidia servers make up 95% of the AI market (according to the paper) so that'd be pretty close to what AI servers would consume.
The paper also estimates about 20% of crypto mining GPUs no longer mining etherium converted to AI, which contributed another 16.1 TWh per year.
This doesn't include some AI, but it should be the majority.
Between those two sources, that gives 23.4 TWh per year. That gives 0.08 exta joules per year per this converter. That's 22% of Sri Lanka's energy consumption (which is the lowest country).
So AI in a year uses at much energy as Sri Lanka uses in 3 months. At least in 2023. I'll see if I can find a more recent study.
So that assumes AI requests use 100 percent of the hardware 100 percent of the time.
Yes, but those servers are pretty ai specific, so that's a decent assumption. Looks like Nvidia is drastically ramping up production of these servers, so current electricity use might be about 10x, I'm working on it.
100% utilization 100% of the time? That seems like an unlikely figure, right?
100% utilization yes, but server uptimes are in the 99 percent range.
Idle consumption vs full utilization consumption are two very different things, though - this will have a large impact on the final number.
This is the kind of comment I love on Lemmy.
Omg it's the guy from the meme
If you want to be snarky, at least be accurate.