This might be why Bill Gates is invested so heavily into TerraPower.
Bill Gates has a $1B short position on Tesla.
I wouldn't use what Bill Gates is investing in as any indicator of what we should be doing.
How to feed all the power-hungry AI data centers
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Re: How to feed all the power-hungry AI data centers
#12Solar is no way close to being reliable, all weather and cheap source of energy that nuclear and fossil fuel can be, which are critical for the tech industry in general.
Re: How to feed all the power-hungry AI data centers
#13i have a crazy idea... how about... not focusing on ever increasing the size of ai models, so that we don't need to build all those power-hungry ai training datacenters? just a thought
It’s always interesting to see these ideas on a tech forum. Should we as humanity stop right here? Draw a line in the sand and not do anything new? Maybe we should move backwards, skipping the Industrial Revolution and go back to each individual growing their own food? This is a serious question. What do you propose? Because you are not able to pick and choose what humanity tries out, so shall we stop entirely?
What people want is limited by their ability level.
And there's no reason to ever be bullish on liberal (classical) society's capacity for intentional change.
Human agency doesn't mean shit.
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#14If your business model depends on a continuous growth curve where your profitability point is more than two years away... you may be planning for an exit in 18 months.
The only reliable long term growth curves so far are world population and global average temperature.
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#15Re: How to feed all the power-hungry AI data centers
#16If your business model depends on a continuous growth curve where your profitability point is more than two years away... you may be planning for an exit in 18 months. The only reliable long term growth curves so far are world population and global average temperature.
Check notes.... World population? We're in for a rude awakening.
Re: How to feed all the power-hungry AI data centers
#17i have a crazy idea... how about... not focusing on ever increasing the size of ai models, so that we don't need to build all those power-hungry ai training datacenters? just a thought
But then who would pay OpenAI to keep building bigg- I mean, smarter models?
Re: How to feed all the power-hungry AI data centers
#18i have a crazy idea... how about... not focusing on ever increasing the size of ai models, so that we don't need to build all those power-hungry ai training datacenters? just a thought
It’s always interesting to see these ideas on a tech forum. Should we as humanity stop right here? Draw a line in the sand and not do anything new? Maybe we should move backwards, skipping the Industrial Revolution and go back to each individual growing their own food? This is a serious question. What do you propose? Because you are not able to pick and choose what humanity tries out, so shall we stop entirely?
We should invent solutions for problems that we have, instead of wildly trying to apply this tech to everything we can think of. We are skipping the benefit/cost considerations.
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#19This article is keyword stuffed nonsense.
Take the first sentence.
> As recently discussed on The Carbon Copy with Brian Janous, utilities are seeing major forecasted demand growth for the first time in decades, and almost entirely from data centers.
Utilities aren't seeing major forecasted demand growth for the first time in decades. It isn't entirely from DCs.
The author appears to have a startup, pitching a Power to NatGas plus direct air capture system because "Why not?™" [0]. I'm offended on behalf of chemical engineers everywhere.
[0]https://terraformindustries.wordpress.com/2023/06/26/the-ter...
Re: How to feed all the power-hungry AI data centers
#20i have a crazy idea... how about... not focusing on ever increasing the size of ai models, so that we don't need to build all those power-hungry ai training datacenters? just a thought
It’s always interesting to see these ideas on a tech forum. Should we as humanity stop right here? Draw a line in the sand and not do anything new? Maybe we should move backwards, skipping the Industrial Revolution and go back to each individual growing their own food? This is a serious question. What do you propose? Because you are not able to pick and choose what humanity tries out, so shall we stop entirely?
Engineers like to create solutions, not problems.