Hmm, these AI energy consumption articles lack a comparison against other uses. Like residential, or other specific types of industry, like transport, agriculture, food biotechnology, mining, tourism, etc, etc or even within creative industry itself, like movie making, music making, illustrations, live venues and so on.

Telling me it consumes as much as a country says nothing of relevance and seems to be only about fearmongering, it's not like it's used by a single country, after all.