Humans use roughly 100W just to stay alive, so 876kWh a year, 26280kWh per life (assuming average historical lifespan of 30 years), since homo sapiens “emerged” there have been roughly 117 billion individuals so 3074760 terrawatthours, and this is ignoring any additional energy usage from doing any activity
And that’s just from a single species that has only existed 190000-ish years
Hey so the thing is like 99% of what people use the internet for can be self hosted (including AI), meaning we already have the means to it. Gen AI is also pretty fucking useless outside of a chat bot
Also if you need facts on something you can, yknow, do what ypur supposed to do and check sources, authors, institutions, backgrounds of the funding, etc? These are things were supposed to be doing anyway for critical information and AI doesn’t change that into “welp guess everythings fake news.” People were lying on the internet long before AI
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Humans use roughly 100W just to stay alive, so 876kWh a year, 26280kWh per life (assuming average historical lifespan of 30 years), since homo sapiens “emerged” there have been roughly 117 billion individuals so 3074760 terrawatthours, and this is ignoring any additional energy usage from doing any activity
And that’s just from a single species that has only existed 190000-ish years
Gonna need a sauce on that bro cause it sounds like you pulled it out of ChatGpt’s Ass
I googled each number as i needed them and can’t be arsed to look them up again, they should be in the right ballpark just look it up
I love that we live in a time where everyone is accusing eachother of posting AI slop regardless of whether it is or not by the way
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Hey so the thing is like 99% of what people use the internet for can be self hosted (including AI), meaning we already have the means to it. Gen AI is also pretty fucking useless outside of a chat bot
Also if you need facts on something you can, yknow, do what ypur supposed to do and check sources, authors, institutions, backgrounds of the funding, etc? These are things were supposed to be doing anyway for critical information and AI doesn’t change that into “welp guess everythings fake news.” People were lying on the internet long before AI