The Invisible Energy Crisis (Access to Electricity) Threatening to Derail the AI Boom | OilPrice.com

https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/The-Invisible-Energy-Crisis-Threatening-to-Derail-the-AI-Boom.html

But with all that spending going into the AI buildout, there’s one question many don’t appear to be asking: where is all of that electricity actually going to come from?

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EvergreenGuru@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 74d (3 replies)

The most over leveraged people just found out that modern technology requires energy. No energy = no technology. They came up with a dumb way to waste energy right before an energy crisis. Good job. Have fun recycling all your special AI chips, dumdums.

empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 11 pts · 74d

finance bros suddenly discovering the laws of physics: 😮

JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 73d (1 reply)

You'd think with budgets of billions, they could afford to build them near lakes/rivers in sunny areas, and do their own cooling and solar. But apparently that major component of a datacenter design - cooling and power - is rarely taken into account.

Telorand@reddthat.com · 4 pts · 73d

They could, but that would mean water treatment before being used (money their profit-driven asses refuse to spend). It's why they always go for drinkable aquifers: the water is already high-quality, and fuck everybody who needs it to live!

CADmonkey@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 73d

How is it these educated people don't know how anything works?

KingKong33@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 73d

Oh no, anyways.

vividsparrow1457@lemmy.1095.me · -1 pts · 73d
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