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		divbzero on Jan 28, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Nvidia’s $589B DeepSeek rout With more efficiency offset by more light bulbs, electricity used for lighting has been roughly flat since 2010: https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/charts/global-electr... (For LLMs I wish that efficiency could lead to less electricity used for chips, but I think the best we can hope for is for electricity use to flatten out.)

gniv on Jan 30, 2025 | [–]

From that graph it looks like residential went down quite a lot, which makes sense since that was the main usage of incandescents.

jes5199 on Jan 28, 2025 | [–]

we just have to get solar deployed sufficiently so that we no longer think of energy use as a waste of something precious

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