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Both things are true.

If we have a superhuman AI, we can run down the powerplants for a few days.

Would it suck? Sure, people would die. Is it simple? Absolutely -- Texas and others are mostly already there some winters.

>>tomrod+(OP)
Current state of the art language models can run inference slowly on a single Xeon or M1 Max with a lot of RAM. Individuals can buy H100s that can infer too.

Maybe it needs a full cluster for training if it is self improving (or maybe that is done another way more similar to finetuning the last layers).

If that is still the case with something super-human in all domains then you'd have to shut down all minor residential solar installs, generators, etc.