One of the more underreported topics regarding 'AI' is the massive amount of power they consume.
I work for an electric utility that a few years ago was in talks of having another merger, just a couple years after the last, to give an idea of how thin things were.
Now? Said company will be adding gigawatts of additional generation over the next 5-10 years, multiple new large plants, almost solely because of this phenomena. Population growth has been static in this region, and no major plants have been shuttered, the growth is almost solely due to this crap.
This is news? The US has been saber rattling with them for decades, I'd be shocked if they didn't have something ready