It takes massive amounts of energy to power the data center brains of popular artificial intelligence models. That demand is only growing. In 2024, many of Silicon Valley’s largest tech giants and hoards of budding, well-funded startups have (very publically) aligned themselves with climate action–awash with PR about their sustainability goals, their carbon neutral pledges, and their promises to prioritize recycled materials. But as AI’s intensive energy demands become more apparent, it seems like many of those supposed green priorities could be jeopardized.
One need only watch California to see the hypocrisy blossom.
When projected promises fails and reality hits…
It’s gonna get really ugly and uncomfortable as politicians are never wrong and will follow the failures into their graves rather than reassess the technology or promises made by their manufacturers.
Canada is a totally different country and it could have been totally different had our politicians followed each other… buffalo over the cliff.
Since when has anyone called you privileged or white supremacy… never happened here.
But our politicians under Obama said it’s so everywhere.
the brain is the most energy consuming organ in the body .
And runs only on a select, purified fuel..
Why don’t the smart people just add more sockets.
Don’t they know that power comes out of the socket?
Even the shepherds in Burkina Faso know that.
Laws mandating more electrical sockets are working their way through various legislatures, Vito.
As I understand it, gummints will no longer mandate clot shots and boosters. Instead, if you need more electricity, gummints will give you a “FREE!” electrical socket (the only legal-to-use approved type), but only if you get your “FREE!” clot shot or a booster.
I’ve read about a German fellow that has had 217(!!) booster shots. That guy is going to be very popular in his neighborhood when everyone has an EV they need to charge.
This is -ALL- fud. Fear, uncertainty, doubt. These morons writing this article don’t even know what a server rack looks like, much less a data center.
They also, as usual, miss the -actual- threat, which is data centralization. When you keep ALL your data in datacenters, and your personal computer is essentially a dumb terminal for displaying that data, you open yourself up to all the myriad shenanigans that large companies and governments love to do to us.
It all boils down to this: If your AI program and your data is on -your- hard drive inside -your- computer, it’s yours. You paid for it, you own it, you use it, you profit from it.
If your program and data are on their hard drive, now it belongs to them. They use it. They profit from it. But you still pay for it.
Yes, I know that the cloud is supposed to be secure, and the data is supposed to be encrypted, and it is all very official and safe and so forth, but isn’t it always that way? And have you noticed, they are almost always lying?
The cloud is euphemism for “a computer belonging to someone else”
I thought “the cloud” was Chinese public opinion?
A cloud is rottsa Chinese people.
Not to worry, the Biden administration will enhance the grid…in the same way it has proliferated charging stations. Candles for all.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/03/joe_biden_had_7_5_billion_to_spend_on_500_000_ev_charging_stations_he_has_built_7.html
Well, roaddog, at a $billion+ bucks per charging station, that sounds about par for the course for a gummint program.
Let me get this straight … ?
So MY nat. gas furnace, water heater and cooktop are OUTLAWED (they are all banned in my CA County) … but GIANT AI propaganda centers that depict George Washington as a blasian woman … get all the nat. gas generated electricity they want and need?
Yes, we need to fuel lies and deception at the speed of light … but my house has to be heated most inefficiently. The people in charge are simpletons. Very dangerous simpletons.
on behalf of others here at SDA kenji l wish you sufficient wits finances and resources to navigate the increasing challenges difficulties, increased regulation in the coming decade in CA.
you are suredly in for some rough seas.
passed thru LAX from hong kong 2006.
zero inclination do even that again.
“…The people in charge are simpletons. Very dangerous simpletons.”
You mean the electorate? Yes, and they are lazy in their role. No democracy long survives them.
A I, very large computer programs, nothing more and nothing less. Those that believe anything that is spewn from them will be a very serious problem in the coming years.
*regardless* of the complexity and behaviour of AI at its cellular, nay, at its ‘molecular’ bit level its all and only one or the other. 100% predictability. cant be both cant be neither.
thus the AI foundation is a VERY LIMITED CHOICE OF TWO. ALWAYS AND ONLY (to quote the famous Buckminster Fuller. he had a distinct way of speaking, describing engineering methods)
just saying . . . .
I wonder if these loonies did some math and decided that an Eye of Sauron world of 10B people generates so much data that all activity recolves around sustaining the spy system
It’s easier to manage if you get rid of 9.5 billion people. That’s the plan.
What? How can we go into negative numbers?
I just used Jamaica’s 10B figure, VOWG. The goal is a global population of 500 million of the “right” people.
The Achilles heel of Artificial Intelligence.
Cooling.
Ok it has 2 or more heels.
Power requirements.
A definition of intelligence.
Programmed by idiots (lazy idiots who copy and paste cause “Work is hard”.)
So its some kind of 4 legged beast.
A real dog?
But the heat output by each server is never properly allowed for when building these installations,most all require air-conditioning.
Serious A/C.
Which requires external chiller decks to expel the waste heat.
Extremely vulnerable vapour and liquid lines.