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Bernardo de La Paz

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25. Do you have a link for your 2028 figure? Biden's DOE says 7 to 12 pc by 2028

Thu Aug 28, 2025, 11:57 AM

Aug 2025

DOE Releases New Report Evaluating Increase in Electricity Demand from ...
Dec 20, 2024 The report finds that data centers consumed about 4.4% of total U.S. electricity in 2023 and are expected to consume approximately 6.7 to 12% of total U.S. electricity by 2028. The report indicates that total data center electricity usage climbed from 58 TWh in 2014 to 176 TWh in 2023 and estimates an increase between 325 to 580 TWh by 2028.

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There is an AI bubble. It will burst. When is unknown, but think about this [View all] Bernardo de La Paz Aug 2025 OP

I saw on a Bravos Research video on YouTube yesterday bucolic_frolic Aug 2025 #1

And fortunes will be lost Bernardo de La Paz Aug 2025 #14

True, which is why you just can't randomly speculate or use hot tips from GoogleFi bucolic_frolic Aug 2025 #18

The cost to the environment is very high, Alice Kramden Aug 2025 #2

A major hurdle is energy madville Aug 2025 #3

Yes to your first paragraph. Your last sentence is untrue hyperbole. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Aug 2025 #15

By 2028 data centers will consume 45% madville Aug 2025 #24

Do you have a link for your 2028 figure? Biden's DOE says 7 to 12 pc by 2028 Bernardo de La Paz Aug 2025 #25

Rock music was, is, and always will be a good thing. Generative AI, the kind of AI hyped now, is the highplainsdem Aug 2025 #4

Citizens turn against ai data centers cbabe Aug 2025 #5

The 2000 dot-com bubble didn't kill the internet. tinrobot Aug 2025 #6

True, but I find it interesting AI cap-ex is much bigger than dot-com cap-ex in 2000 Bernardo de La Paz Aug 2025 #16

Probability OC375 Aug 2025 #7

LUDDITES UNITE !!! Mossfern Aug 2025 #12

Like humans Bernardo de La Paz Aug 2025 #17

With any luck AI will crash so badly that investors will be scared off for decades. hunter Aug 2025 #8

Like the dot-com crash? Didn't scare off investors for even one decade. Some kind of crash, but not decades deep. Bernardo de La Paz Aug 2025 #19

I can imagine AI severely damaging a regional electric grid during a deadly heatwave. hunter Aug 2025 #27

I can imagine things too. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Aug 2025 #29

I don't know about you, but my imagination, and even to a certain extent my paranoia... hunter Aug 2025 #30

My imagination has made me money, and kept me out of much trouble too. . . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Aug 2025 #32

AI as it currently exists will end up like some kind of chronic disease. hunter Aug 2025 #33

A.I. uses too much electricity...... Jack Valentino Aug 2025 #9

Name a major technological breakthrough that the world back away from due to... Melon Aug 2025 #10

China consumes a lot of power. They also lead the world in reneawble energy investment. CentralMass Aug 2025 #26

China also has 1200 coal fired plants vs US 195 Melon Aug 2025 #28

More importantly they are building nuclear power plants... hunter Aug 2025 #31

It's not nearly as big of a bubble as the Dot-com bubble was because AI companies are making a crap load of sales Quixote1818 Aug 2025 #11

Excellent analysis. Thank you. . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Aug 2025 #20

AI is a useful tool, that's it. Xolodno Aug 2025 #13

It is missing the boat to dismiss it as a tool. The internet was/is a tool, but it was * transformative *. Bernardo de La Paz Aug 2025 #21

It hurts people and the planet. Ron Green Aug 2025 #22

Precisely - and how will it be powered? By coal and gas, because they're cheap, and renewables are gay, woke and trans. hatrack Aug 2025 #23

Hey thanks for the credit bucolic_frolic Aug 2025 #34