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AI Data Centre Energy Costs with Leslie Coelho

AI Data Centre Energy Costs with Leslie Coelho

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AI never says "I don't know." That single fact should change how you use it. I'm joined again by my friend Leslie Coelho, back by popular demand after questions came in about local models, sustainability and where all this growth is actually heading. Forty years in software engineering, and he's lived through every wave of it. The thing that stayed with me from this one is the child analogy. AI is like a very bright child that desperately wants to please you. So when it's only twenty percent sure, it doesn't hedge. It answers with complete authority. If you know the subject, you'll spot the gaps. If you don't, you won't. We talk about how you'd usually judge a source, you know which mate exaggerates and which one actually knows their stuff, but we never build that instinct with AI because we're always asking it something different. Then there's the cost of asking badly. Leslie's example landed hard. You wouldn't ring a lawyer at £400 an hour and ask them to pick up a pint of milk. But that's exactly what's happening when companies burn tokens converting Word documents to PDFs, a job Word does for free. Three major companies have already spent more on tokens this year than they would have spent on the staff they replaced. Turns out unlimited budgets weren't quite unlimited. And underneath all of it, the power. One data centre being built in America will consume as much electricity as the whole of London. Several more are going up around the planet. We've spent decades talking about reducing emissions. This is not that. But there's a way through, and it's not doom. It's choice. Run models locally. Break big tasks into smaller ones. Ask better questions. Stop reaching for AI when a free tool already does the job. Capital cost up front, operating cost close to nothing. Ask it questions. Let it ask you questions back. Then let it work. If you've got more questions after this one, and I suspect you will, send them over. That's how we ended up with this episode.

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