Bitcoin uses too much energy? AI uses too much energy?

The viability of an activity's power consumption is directly linked to the perceived value of that activity by its assessor. When an assessor does not value or feels threatened by an activity, they are more likely to deem its power consumption unviable. For example, consider the use of clothes dryers instead of washing lines. Statistics show that clothes dryers consume approximately 1.4 billion kWh per day globally, while the current energy consumption for neural network computing is estimated at around 100 to 200 million kWh per day.

However, when evaluating the use of neural network computing in future design, it becomes evident that it has the potential to significantly enhance the energy efficiency of most, if not all, existing and future technologies. This is a transformative capability that clothes dryers, as a whole, do not offer.

I think it is important to thougroughly understand the technology in question before making assertions about the viability of its power consumption.