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[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

No, I think that gets conveyed in the second half, the argument isn't that AI as a whole isn't using a lot of electricity, it's that this electricity use is being misattributed to LLM chatbots which are only a very small part of it.