10bn investment in Northumberland datacentre confirmed Blyth will be home to UK’s biggest AI datacentre #northumberland#AI#Datacentre#blythhttps://www.computing.co.uk/news/2024/big-data-analytics/10bn-investment-northumberland-ai-datacentre
Also why does Azure cause more outages to our systems than our supposedly not as good on premise datacentre?
Mexico’s datacentre industry is booming – but are more drought and blackouts the price communities must pay? www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Many fear the arrival of tech giants such as Amazon and Google in the state of Querétaro will place too much of a strain on scarce water and electricity resources
Mexico’s datacentre industry is booming – but are more drought and blackouts the price communities must pay?
Many fear the arrival of tech giants such as Amazon and Google in the state of Querétaro will place too much of a strain on scarce water and electricity resources
a man with a blue halo on his head, telegram sticker, unkempt hair and beard, datacentre, inspired by Carl-Henning Pedersen, i'd make a deal with god, running freely, tech wear, tiny room with dirty wall tiles, inspired by Gregorius Sickinger, with no derpy face, real life photo, smiley
I struggle with decarbonising my life as a positive thing to do vs. decarbonising my life as something that makes no real difference at all and just serves to get the big polluters off the hook. My carbon footprint is piss all compared to the CO2 generated by an AI datacentre every second.
A gigantic datacentre uses the same water as a couple hundred or so acres of alfalfa. But writing that doesn't earn clicks, so everyone puts it in stupid terms like "numbers of glasses of water" Datacentres also commonly use grey water (nonpotable) for cooling anyway.
* Crediting all datacentre power growth to AI (AI is growing faster than most uses, but datacentre power use was growing at a good clip before AI) * Confusing inference power w/ training power (all training could stop tomorrow and the existing models would continue to function & even be finetined)
And server GPUs are much more efficient than consumer gaming GPUs. There's been a lot of ridiculous hype articles in the news, which do a mix of: * Presenting hypothetical (IMHO nonsensical) future numbers as if they're present * Treating all datacentre power as AI (it's a small minority) ...
4) Back on the power perspective, "datacentre power consumption" != "AI power consumption". Datacentre power consumption was rising at a good clip even before AI. AI's rate of growth is faster than other datacentre power needs, but again, you can't attribute it all to AI.