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Making AI compute cheaper per token drives enough extra usage that total AI energy consumption rises rather than falls (a Jevons paradox effect).

Drawn from what Zeke Hausfather said

SubjectsLLMsenergysustainability
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sustainability Whether human wellbeing and environmental impact still have to trade off against each other.

Mental modelCheaper means more, not less

What Zeke Hausfather actually said

  1. Zeke Hausfather Climate scientist and energy systems analyst
    This is the Jevons paradox in action: making compute cheaper per token in turn tends to lead to greater levels of AI use.

    Where this was said

    ↗The real energy use of agentic AItheclimatebrink.com

    5 Aug 2026

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