Sam Altman’s Latest Excuse: “But Mooooom, Humans Use Energy Too!”

TechCrunch’s latest circle-jerk article has Sam Altman, that patron saint of overhyped statistics, defending his GPU fetish by pointing out that—get this—HUMANS ALSO CONSUME ENERGY. No fucking shit, Sherlock. Next you’ll tell me water is wet and my sanity is draining faster than a data center’s UPS during a power surge.

The article, which reads like it was written by a sycophantic ChatGPT instance with a head injury, explains how our favorite silicon valley messiah is getting heat because his company’s latest model apparently needs the same power output as a small fucking fusion reactor just to tell people how to bake sourdough bread.

According to the piece, Altman told some room full of nodding journalists that a human brain runs on about 20 watts, but the *useful work* that brain does—like making decisions, creating art, or figuring out where to buy lunch—somehow justifies burning 2,000 megawatt-hours to train a model that’ll be obsolete before the cooling bills are even paid. The math checks out if you’re a fucking moron.

The article also mentions some “thought leaders” (spineless wankers who couldn’t lead a horse to water) are buying this bullshit argument. They say it’s “reframing the narrative.” I say it’s polishing a turd and calling it a diamond. If I had a nickel for every time some tech bro reframed environmental destruction as progress, I could buy my own fucking island and watch the apocalypse in comfort.

The best part? They’re not even talking about the *ongoing* energy use. Just training these digital monstrosities once is like taking a 747 for a joyride to Mars. But sure, Sam, let’s compare that to the 200 calories Dave from accounting burned walking to the coffee machine this morning.

Read the recycled bullshit here: https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/21/sam-altman-would-like-remind-you-that-humans-use-a-lot-of-energy-too/

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Related: Yesterday some VP asked if we could reduce our carbon footprint by “leveraging AI efficiency.” I told him I’d already leveraged AI to efficiently route all his emails to /dev/null. He thanked me for being proactive. These people deserve everything that’s coming.

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