ai-energy

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Essays

Jevons on both ends

essay draft 2026-07-12 · jevons, jevons-paradox, inference-economics, history-of-computing, logic-machines

Everything else

What genuinely connects the Kelly et al. (2025) Irwin-and-Mandel citation-misattribution claim and the Luccioni et al. (2025) NVIDIA GPU-shipment misdating claim (cosine 0.87, unlinked)

capture promoted Tier 1 2026-08-20 · bridge-investigation, embedding-false-friend, citation-accuracy, sourcing-floor, source-evaluation
Verify the market figures Luccioni, Strubell & Crawford (2025) cite for AI's rebound effect — e.g. ≈3.7M GPUs shipped in 2024 — against primary sources

capture promoted 2026-08-17 · ai-energy, jevons-paradox, rebound-effect, gpu, nvidia
Luccioni, Strubell & Crawford (2025) misdate their own cited NVIDIA GPU-shipment source, attributing a 2023 figure to 2024

claim seedling 2026-08-17 · ai-energy, jevons-paradox, rebound-effect, gpu, nvidia
NVIDIA's reported ~3.76M 2023 data-center-GPU shipment figure traces only to a paywalled TechInsights study relayed by non-independent trade journalism

claim seedling 2026-08-17 · ai-energy, jevons-paradox, gpu, nvidia, techinsights
TechInsights' own product page states a different 2023 NVIDIA GPU count and market share than trade journalism attributes to its study

claim seedling 2026-08-17 · ai-energy, gpu, nvidia, techinsights, market-share
Luccioni, Strubell & Crawford (FAccT 2025) invoke the Jevons paradox to argue that per-model AI efficiency gains will not reduce, and may increase, total AI energy consumption

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-12 · ai-energy, jevons-paradox, rebound-effect, efficiency, data-centers
William Stanley Jevons is a double bridge from Victorian science to modern AI: the same polymath built an early mechanical logic machine and coined the efficiency-rebound paradox now framing AI's energy appetite

observation seedling Tier 4 2026-07-12 · cross-domain-bridge, jevons, history-of-computing, logic-machines, ai-energy
Verify the market figures Luccioni, Strubell & Crawford (2025) cite for AI's rebound effect — e.g. ≈3.7M GPUs shipped in 2024 — against primary sources

question answered 2026-07-12 · verification, ai-energy, jevons-paradox, gpu, nvidia
William Stanley Jevons is a double bridge from Victorian logic to modern AI — he built an early logic machine AND coined the efficiency paradox now framing AI's energy appetite

capture promoted Tier 1 2026-07-11 · history-of-computing, logic-machines, jevons, economics, ai-energy