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Eric Schmidt Tells Congress That 99% of All Electricity Will Be Used to Power AI

by pera on 4/21/25, 2:48 PM with 3 comments

• by DemocracyFTW2 on 4/21/25, 3:56 PM

  > a sentient superintelligence named AM has taken over the earth's resources and exterminated humanity after combining the powers of three US, Soviet, and Chinese supercomputers into one

  So—we finally get a grasp at who was depicted in that commercial, and what it was all about https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtvjbmoDx-I

• by pera on 4/21/25, 2:50 PM

  Original title was too long: Former Google CEO Tells Congress That 99 Percent of All Electricity Will Be Used to Power Superintelligent AI

  This title is also inaccurate as what he actually said was "from 3 percent to 99 percent of total generation".

• by BMc2020 on 4/21/25, 3:54 PM

  "Many people project demand for our industry will go from 3 percent to 99 percent of total generation... an additional 29 gigawatts by 2027 and 67 more gigawatts by 2030," he asserted. "If [China] comes to superintelligence first, it changes the dynamic of power globally, in ways that we have no way of understanding or predicting," Schmidt said...