Netflix spending 240Wh for 1h of content just does not pass the smell test for me.

Today I can have ~8 people streaming from my Jellyfin instance which is a server that consumes about 35W, measured at the wall. That's ~5Wh per hour of content from me not even trying.

That's inference only, otherwise people would not be buulding nuclear reactors to power AI.

It's quickly pointed out that he's not counting the training of models, producing all the GPUs, energy spent on scraping, the increased storage needs from scraping the whole internet, etc.