Seattle Cat Meme Costs More Electricity Than Your Entire Block
KEY POINTS
- ā¢Remi Raphael, Electric Power Research Institute's AI chief, explained AI image creation starting from electrons to microchips.
- ā¢AI companies rent expensive Nvidia-powered GPUs housed in cooling-intensive data centers owned by Amazon, Google, and Microsoft.
- ā¢EmeraldAI and Schneider Electric improve energy efficiency as AI data centers' power demand is expected to quadruple by 2030.
Forget magic: AI-generated giant cats in Seattle come loaded with energy costs that could power a small country. Thanks to Remi Raphael, the Electric Power Research Institute's first chief AI officer, now we know your meme runs on a GPU army mostly rented from cloudy giants like Amazon, Google, and Microsoft. These chips are basically Nvidia-built muscle behind AI's glamour, crunching data while Colossus-like data centers sweat under massive cooling systems. EmeraldAI and Schneider Electric are the unsung heroes keeping this cat's power guzzling under control, amid projections that AI centers' electricity demand will quadruple by 2030. And that cat? Just chilling next to the Space Needle is a power-hungry status symbol of our future.
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Turns out your hilarious AI cat meme is just a fossil fuel fan club's latest bath in electrons, sponsored by Nvidia and cooled by icebergs we canāt afford anymore.
We finally learned that giant AI cats depend on Nvidia chips, data centers sweating in server rooms hotter than a midsummer Seattle day.
If AI-generated cats had PAs, it'd be EmeraldAI and Schneider Electric trying to stop your meme from bankrupting the planetās electric grid.
Source: Axios | Published: 1/16/2026 | Author: Amy Harder
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