The International Energy Agency just increased its prior growth predictions for energy demand. Data centers are one of the major drivers. Here's why that's significant: www.theverge.com/news/614356/...

Whoa! Calculating Empires made the front cover of Saturday's El PAIS newspaper. Far-ranging interview on the interconnections of politics, theory, and technology in our work and personal lives: from the Serbian protests to the AI Summit. @elpais.com @minipetite.bsky.social elpais.com/babelia/2025...

Want to read the whole paper? 🌍
"From Efficiency Gains to Rebound Effects:
The Problem of Jevons’ Paradox in AI’s Polarized Environmental Debate"
Pre-print here: arxiv.org/pdf/2501.16548

DeepSeek forces a rethink of the compute & energy costs of AI models. In a new paper with @sashamtl.bsky.social @strubell.bsky.social, we look at the full environmental impacts of AI – both direct and indirect – and what 𝐉e𝐯𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐨𝐱 means for AI and climate. A thread 🧵