Again: these numbers have already been done. Corporations like Netflix, or the industry of streaming services in general, are not building multi-gigawatt city-sized gas-fired power stations because they are fundamentally less harmful in their demand growth than generative AI as an industry
Ketan Joshi
The total annual emissions from the gas-fired power stations *just to run Grok* will, once operational, be greater than the total global GHG footprint of all global streaming on Netflix, Amazon Prime and Disney+ (208bn hours) 🧐
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