By now, most of us should be vaguely aware that artificial intelligence is pretty hungry for power. Even if you don't know the exact numbers, the charge that "AI is bad for the environment" is well documented, bubbling throughout sources ranging from mainstream press to pop-science YouTube channels to "visionary" tech trade media. Still, the AI industry as we know it today is pretty young. Though startups and big tech firms have been plugging away on large language models (LLMs) since the 2010s, the release of consumer generative AI in late 2022 brought about a huge increase in AI adoption, […]