TheDigicene

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The Digicene is the next geological epoch, when computers become the main driver of planetary change.

In the Anthropocene...

CO2 levels have increased from 275 to 425 ppm.

Carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere

Half of the world’s arable land is now used for agriculture.

Diagram showing how the world’s surface and habitable land are used for food production.
Mass

Anthropogenic mass is now greater than all biomass.

Area chart showing anthropogenic mass overtaking the dry weight of all biomass around 2020.
Energy

Humans use 20 TW of energy. Life uses 100 TW.

Global direct primary energy consumption

In the Digicene...

Claude codes 4% of public GitHub commits.

Line chart showing Claude Code's daily GitHub commits growing from near zero to over 134,000 per day, roughly 4% of all public GitHub commits.
Energy

Data centers consume 50 GW, about 2% of all electricity.

Share of total electricity demand used by data centers
Mass

We build more data centers than offices.

Line chart showing US data center construction spending climbing to overtake office construction spending, accelerating after the ChatGPT launch.
Computation

There are 25M H100e chips, 0.3% of human brainpower.

Bar chart showing cumulative AI chip sales in H100 equivalents, growing from about 1M in early 2024 to over 24M by early 2026.

See this video for more.

YouTube video thumbnail showing a glowing sphere split between orange light and darkness.