Tech Trends Report – Q4 2025

Did you know that in just three years, artificial intelligence (AI) could consume as much electricity per year as 22% of all U.S. households combined? That jaw-dropping statistic is just one part of a wider web of unintended consequences surrounding widespread AI adoption.

Beyond using up gigawatts of electricity, AI models in their current form:

• Inflate consumer energy costs,
• Increase greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs), and
• Spark health crises in communities near data centers.

As Rich Mendis, CMO at ByteMethod.ai, succinctly stated in one of our recent webinars: “AI carries a real environmental cost.” But what if private enterprises, government agencies, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) could offset those side effects together? At Dexian, we’ve been mulling over that very question.