We’re all going to be paying AI’s Godzilla-sized power bills

Even if you never use it, you’ll be paying for it thanks to datacenters’ never-ending hunger for electricity

Opinion  When I was a wet-behind-the-ears developer running my programs on an IBM 360, a mainframe that was slower than a Raspberry Pi Zero W, my machine used about 50 kilowatts (kW). I thought that was a lot of power. Little did I know what was coming.…