It's happened. OpenAI wants to use more electricity than bitcoin (2-4x more). They want five to seven 5 gigawatt data centers 🤯 fortune.com/2024/09/27/o... 🧵
OpenAI also wants 36 new semiconductor manufacturing facilities. To put that in perspective, TSMC is the largest semiconductor manufacturer and the only leading-edge manufacturer and they have 18.
If they want to go nuclear I have no issue tbh
seems related...
Of course WIRED has an article Bitcoin uses 112.31 TWh annually AI servers could use between 85 to 134 Twh annually by 2027 in a middle-ground scenario Other resources, like water, also are impacted in both scenarios
If AI and crypto are the technological behemoths of our era, which one has a bigger appetite for energy?
Nono, I want to hear again how I shouldn’t be concerned about how much power is being wasted on this shit (Not from you to be clear)
i am still yet to see anyone that genuinely wants this other than the exact same people who shilled the fuck out of crypto and nfts. beyond the impact on creatives and employment everything "made" by genai is just pure disgusting slop and clockable from a mile off. it is pure sewage
Can anyone send me a free link to this? I'm not a subscriber so I can't read the whole article :(
Unsustainable unless we achieve AGI & eventual ASI. This is a gamble we shouldn't take. Expand nuclear and seek stable fusion for infrastructure use ASAP. Use CCUS & ejection to reduce global heating. Save forests, lower consumption, end fossil fuel use except where necessary. Act now.