Altman: AI’s Energy Use Is Tiny Next to Humanity’s Energy Appetite
At the India AI Impact Summit, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman dismissed sensational claims about AI’s vast energy use, arguing that data centers do consume energy but that the sector should shift to nuclear and renewables. He contends that training and sustaining human civilization itself required far more energy, food, and evolutionary time, prompting a backlash online and highlighting the industry’s transparency gaps in reporting energy and water usage.
