The racks I am personally responsible for consume 17.2kW. That’s consistent across the year; sure things dip a bit when applications are shut down, but in general 17.2kW is the number. Presuming a national average of 1.2kW per home, each rack of equipment I oversee could potentially power 14 houses. I am responsible for hundreds of these racks, while my larger organization has many thousands of these racks in many locations worldwide.
I’ve found no other way to let the scale of this sink in. When put this way she is very clear: the price isn’t worth it to humanity. Being able to get, say, Door Dash, is pretty neat! But not at the cost of all our hoarded treasure and certainly not at the cost of the environment on the only planet we have access to.
The work done by AI will only ever benefit the people at the top. Because to be frank: they won’t share. Because the very wealthy have hoarding disorder.