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From: Mark Butcher <mark@posetiv.co.uk>
To: Wim Vanderbauwhede <Wim.Vanderbauwhede@glasgow.ac.uk>, E-Impact IETF <e-impact@ietf.org>
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Couldn’t agree more

It’s simply a wealth extraction exercise being peddled by VCs/PE and tech vendor billionaires. The actual outcome to wider society will be more unemployment, social unrest, but the 0.01% will be able to buy another private jet and new Siberian mink carpets for their 23rd holiday home, so that’s nice.

Mark

From: Wim Vanderbauwhede <Wim.Vanderbauwhede@glasgow.ac.uk>
Date: Wednesday, 21 May 2025 at 09:40
To: E-Impact IETF <e-impact@ietf.org>
Subject: [E-impact] Re: AI Needs More Abundant Power Supplies to Keep Driving Economic Growth
AI is not "driving economic growth" at the moment. On the contrary, businesses report no ROI at all.

Wim

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On 20 May 2025, at 20:34, Hesham ElBakoury <helbakoury@gmail.com<mailto:helbakoury@gmail.com>> wrote:

These are set of interesting charts.

https://www.imf.org/en/Blogs/chart-of-the-week

As this Chart of the Week<https://www.imf.org/en/Blogs/chart-of-the-week> shows, electricity used by data centers alone, already as much as that of Germany or France, would by 2030 be comparable to that of India, third world’s largest electricity user. This would also leapfrog over the projected consumption by electric vehicles, using 1.5 times as much power than EVs by the decade’s end.

Hesham






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