As long as all the AI data centres don’t get built, this trend could continue. If they build and run all the data centres that are planned, it will reverse this progress.

An electron meeting a positron will apparently release 1.022 MeV of energy. I’m no physicist but my understanding is that this isn’t huge (it converts to 1.637×10⁻¹³ Joules). For comparison, fission of a uranium-235 nucleus releases about 200 MeV.

One thing that really puts me off AI is how its boosters talk to other people.