AI power growth is projected to grow exponentially for a service a lot of people view as morally reprehensible and actively harmful

And this is a lie altman is telling to get more money.

It's not scaling. GPT-5 is making it more obvious, but the ML research community has known this for some time. Tech projected to take off (like bitnet and more sparse attention/inference schemes), on the other hand, will lower power usage enough for phone inference and such.