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Just look at the most recent ecological reports about it and combine them with the AI industry growth plans. You'll get an interesting perspective.
A lot of work has been going into making AIs more energy efficient, both in training and in inference stages. Electricity costs money, so obviously everyone's interested in more efficient AIs. That makes them more profitable.
Still you can't improve it that much. It's like blockchain. Computers always consume a lot of power, no matter how efficient they are.
You can improve it hugely. These things are very young.
There was a paper recently about removing the need for matrix multiplication from them which is a hugely expensive operation.
Dedicated hardware is also at a very early stage.