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Anyone who can confirm if these figures are correct?
Even if it is, this pales in comparison to corporate energy use. https://www.epa.gov/energy/electricity-customers
This is shifting the blame, just like pretending your recycling a soda bottle will save the environment compared to the huge amounts of landfill waste generated by companies every day.
In 2024, datacenters alone consumed 1.5% of global energy. That's not even counting non-datacenter server facilities. https://www.iea.org/reports/energy-and-ai/energy-demand-from-ai
Yeah I agree, I later saw that the article focuses on households, which usually account for like 20% of a countries energy usage.
Honestly, I associated the articles headline and photo to energy losses in the Grid by keeping energy online. So Grid losses, and the application of smart grid functions will save way more then 5% of a ca 20% household energy usage. In this article they talk about a 4-5% overall country gain, for example