https://www.libcom.de/en/tags/energy/Recent content in Energy on libcom.deHugoen-GBMon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.libcom.de/en/blog/ai-electricity-one-sided-debate/Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.libcom.de/en/blog/ai-electricity-one-sided-debate/<p>Long before the first AI images flooded the timelines, before ChatGPT became a household word, rooms full of graphics cards stood in data centres around the world — computing day and night, evaporating megawatts. Render farms for films. Supercomputers for weather models and climate research. And crypto-mining rigs, whose power consumption was criticised early and rightly. All of these are evolutionary stages of the same digital infrastructure. Then came language models, and suddenly every kilowatt-hour sounded like a confession — as though the appetite for power were fundamentally new and the question of its usefulness obsolete.</p>