The power usage is massively overstated, and a meme perpetuated by Altman so he’ll get more more money for ‘scaling’. And he’s lying through his teeth: there literally isn’t enough silicon capacity in the world for that stupid idea.

GPT-5 is already proof scaling with no innovation doesn’t work. So are open source models trained/running on peanuts nipping at its heels.

And tech in the pipe like bitnet is coming to disrupt that even more; the future is small, specialized, augmented models, mostly running locally on your phone/PC because it’s so cheap and low power.

There’s tons of stuff to worry about over LLMs and other generative ML, but future power usage isn’t one.