We truly have given up on caring about energy consumption haven't we:
"If you consider that the total compute capacity in the UK is estimated to be around 1.8 gigawatts, with I’ve read ambitions to reach six gigawatts by 2030. Well, that is about the same as one single data centre being built by my former employer Meta in Louisiana."
- Nick Clegg
Yep one data centre consuming more electricity than the whole of London. And this is a good thing. Which we need to be chasing, "... these really are crumbs from the Silicon Valley table,"
What happened to those people were talking about how dark mode on websites would save some fraction of electricity only a couple of years ago?