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According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), in 2024 all data centers worldwide for AI, cloud computing, and streaming used only about 1.5% of global electricity, and AI servers accounted for only about 15% of data-center energy use, meaning AI's actual electricity use is under 0.3% of the global total. And energy use per AI query is falling tenfold every year: a simple AI text query uses less electricity than running a TV for the same duration. And scrolling, streaming vidoes on social media uses massive amounts of electricity too, but you never see influencers going viral telling people to stop scrolling.On water consumption: Google's official technical report shows a median Gemini text prompt uses about 0.26 ml of water — roughly five drops. By comparison, Americans use ~34 billion liters of water a day watering lawns, while all Gemini prompts worldwide in a full day total only about 650,000 liters.So where does American panic come from? Part of it is real: AI is monopolized by a few tech giants, electricity bills are at all-time highs, and layoff anxiety is spreading. Part of it is deliberately manufactured: a WIRED investigation (May 2026) exposed a dark-money group called 'Build American AI' — backed by the $140 million super PAC 'Leading the Future,' funded by OpenAI president Greg Brockman, OpenAI investor Andreessen Horowitz, Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale and others — which pays TikTok and Instagram influencers about $5,000 per video to spread 'Chinese AI threat' messaging while concealing who is paying. OpenAI and Anthropic have also become the biggest-spending AI lobbyists in Washington, with $2.99M and $3.13M in federal lobbying in 2025 respectively, plus Anthropic's separate $20 million donation to the political group Public First Action. #WAIC #ChinaView all 2,151 comments
