Tech companies across the board are replacing human workers with AI, and the trend is accelerating. Amazon CEO Andy Jassy bluntly stated: human jobs are disappearing because AI is cheaper and smarter.
Bottom line: the AI-driven transformation is unstoppable, and it’s only just getting started.
Now, there are hidden bottom-line costs to the AI boom—electricity demand and specialized hardware. ChatGPT alone already burns through enough electricity every year to power 20,000 American homes. And AI’s electricity usage is set to double every two or three years.
Today’s massive AI data centers are sci-fi movie sets with giant racks of supercharged processors that hum and glow, working overtime to crunch vast amounts of data. Yet most of these facilities are dedicated to cooling the servers’ powerful processors that run blisteringly hot. Cooling isn’t just a comfort issue; it’s critical. Chips that overheat slow down or even fail, causing expensive outages.
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This post originally appeared at Contrarian Outlook.