Energy Consumption
topic on 3 shows · 7 statements across 7 episodes
Catalyst 
the Green Blueprint 
the a16z Podcast
7 statements about Energy Consumption, every show
Kann: Minimizing energy consumption will be the primary data center design incentive
“It feels to me like the incentive for the foreseeable future as it pertains to designing everything that goes into the data center is minimize energy consumption.”
Kann: Historically, compute expanded dramatically while energy use stayed flat
“The history of compute is one in which we expand compute dramatically while keeping overall energy consumption basically flat. Like, that's been true for a couple decades.”
Ulevitch: Global energy consumption will never decrease below current levels
“Like, we're not going backwards in our energy consumption. That, that ship has sailed.”
Janis: Computing efficiency gains increase total energy use due to endless demand
“The only time that efficiency is going to Reduce the input needed for any process is when you're starting to exhaust the demand for that resource, right? And when you think about something like data, we're nowhere close to satiating human demand for data, whic…”
Bullard: The Answer to AI Energy Growth Is Probably AI Applications
“The answer to AI data consumption growth or energy consumption growth is probably AI, finding other applications for it, and we see these from some of the providers.”
Webber: About 13% of US energy consumption goes to water and steam
“If you look at the United States as an example, we use about a hundred quads of energy, a hundred quadrillion BTU of energy. BTU is a British thermal unit of energy. About 13% of that energy is for water and steam.”