In the latest Special Edition of our newsletter, “A-I-A-I- Oh!”, we’ll take a look at what’s called “generative” AI (AI used to create content) as it fast encroaches on our lives.
Regulation is about to slip through our fingers as the government pushes a decade-long moratorium on states’ regulations. (Want to bet it’ll get renewed?) But, it’s the states that are losing fresh potable water and an increasing portion of their electricity generation capacity as we are hurtled into something that we don’t understand, partly because there’s as yet no means to measure it due to federal coddling of “proprietary information” owned by billionaires, and partly because we’ve let ourselves become both inticed and intimidated.
What's going on in the world these days reads like a sci-fi End-of-the-World movie: a civilization gone mad, their values turned upside-down, knowingly killing their livable planet through accelerating electricity use in pursuit of a "knowledge" and an “ease” which become the antithesis of comprehension and comfort.
This civilization’s rulers obsess with competition over cooperation, and with accelerating “speed”. (But, to where?) They’re planning scores of new nuclear power plants to answer questions about cleaning up the quadmires created by misuse of power plants. The civilization falls under the absolute control of an increasingly psychopathic Rulership craving MORE money, MORE power, MORE control….
In a search for “AI energy use”, the first six articles said MORE:
Polytechnique Insights, Nov 2024, “Generative AI: energy consumption soars“
Nature, March 2025, “How much energy will AI really consume? The good, the bad, and the unknown”
Scientific American, Oct 2023, “The AI Boom Could Use a Shocking Amount of Electricity”
Yale Environment 360, Feb 2024, “As Use of A.I. Soars, So Does the Energy and Water It Requires”
The Verge, Feb 2025, “How much electricity does AI consume?”
Water. Carbon. Life.
MORE is finally achieved: MORE melt-downs, MORE irreparable destruction, MORE fresh water lost, MORE arable lands destroyed, MORE wars, MORE anti-life. And, the people, their fellow creatures, and the lands and oceans, sicken and die.
We are not chasing “better”. We are chasing our tails.
What we find reflects on the sustainability not only of AI, but of ourselves.
