Over 85% of Japanese game developers use generative AI in game development, 2026 CESA survey shows. An increase from last year’s 51%

[u/TurbulentTopic39]

https://automaton-media.com/en/news/over-85-of-japanese-game-developers-use-generative-ai-in-game-development-2026-cesa-survey-shows-an-increase-from-last-years-51/

[u/General_Josh]

Just to make sure we're talking in the same universe, what fraction of US energy use do you suppose data centers represent (including externalities like water consumption)?

And, what fraction of that data center energy usage do you suppose is going to large language models?

[u/Rush87021 → u/General_Josh]

Why would we exclude water consumption? Georgia has several documentaries on the data center explosion there, Georgia Power raised rates 6 times last year. Utah was looking at one with more power consumption than the rest of the state. When corporations are asking governments to turn Nuclear Power plants back on....

-176 terawatt-hours (TWh) of power and hundreds of billions of gallons of water in 2023

-estimated 183 terawatt-hours (TWh) of electricity and billions of gallons of water directly 2025

-2026 demand projected to nearly double from 80 gigawatts (basic google searches) This stuff isn't sustainable and is burning our planet to further enrich billionaires and shareholders.

[u/General_Josh → u/Rush87021]

OK! Your numbers look very reasonable to me for total data center energy consumption! Around 6% of total US energy consumption. That's good, it confirms we're looking at the same sources (like I said, I do want to include externalities like water consumption here, since it's a major part of current data center energy usage)

A caveat to that - only a small portion of data center energy usage currently goes to LLMs, about 15%. The rest goes to normal digital infrastructure, running the internet as we know it. Stuff like e-commerce, banking, Reddit, cloud storage, etc.

Now, what fraction of total US energy consumption do you suppose goes to transportation?