One of the more comprehensive of those consequences is AI's comprehensive undermining of any effort to make energy production more sustainable, which, as I have pointed out on several occasions, necessarily begins with rationalizing energy usage.Two news stories last week from opposite sides of the world illustrated the problem; the first was a feature story from Nikkei Asia, and the other was an article in the US-based energy monitor Utility Dive.
Start building data centers with the same reckless abandon of the POGO boom a couple of years ago — which seems to be the level of enthusiasm those concerned currently have — and we will have those problems almost instantly.