Paul Murphy (Dublin South West, Solidarity)

To dig into that a little, DeepSeek was presented as a good news story because it smashed the American models, effectively, given that it was far more efficient. However, does the Jevons paradox apply to AI? Computing has obviously become a lot more efficient over the past 40 or 50 years. Worldwide, however, I would say we use more electricity on computing now than we did 50 years ago. Computing has therefore become more effective but the result has been an increased adoption. Is there research on whether the Jevons paradox applies to the use of AI and more efficiency simply being gobbled up by more usage?