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if anything we are producing too much food and what communications you find lacking?
Food distribution is still a problem in vast part of the world. Handling food waste is another issue. Climate related shortage are coming soon for us (at the moment they only manifest as punctual price hikes - mustard a few years ago, coffee and chocolate more recently, etc... https://www.euronews.com/green/2025/02/13/goodbye-gouda-and-... https://www.fao.org/newsroom/detail/adverse-climatic-conditi... https://www.fo…
it is difficult to comprehend for me that soneone spends all this time thinking through and calculating how to harness as much energy as possible and then wants to use it for large language models instead of something useful, like food production, communication, transport or any other way of satisfying actual human material needs. what weird priorities.
From a purely engineering perspective I think it becomes difficult to argue with the gas turbine once you get into the gigawatt class of data center. The amount of land required for this much solar is not to be understated. In many practical scenarios the solar array would need to be located a distance away from the actual data center. This implies transmission infrastructure which is often the hardest part of any el…
it is difficult to comprehend for me that soneone spends all this time thinking through and calculating how to harness as much energy as possible and then wants to use it for large language models instead of something useful, like food production, communication, transport or any other way of satisfying actual human material needs. what weird priorities.
All the other concerns require more subtle approaches because human requirements are much more messy.
it is difficult to comprehend for me that soneone spends all this time thinking through and calculating how to harness as much energy as possible and then wants to use it for large language models instead of something useful, like food production, communication, transport or any other way of satisfying actual human material needs. what weird priorities.
I do not think I even understand your complaint. Different people can work on different problems. We do not have to pick only one.
> My improvement is more important than yours.
We can just do both.
Slightly OT, but I see the Chinese are talking about space DCs now too which would suggest they reckon it could work too. (Unlike me and others here)
Why are we wasting resources on toy chatbots?
it is difficult to comprehend for me that soneone spends all this time thinking through and calculating how to harness as much energy as possible and then wants to use it for large language models instead of something useful, like food production, communication, transport or any other way of satisfying actual human material needs. what weird priorities.
Whether you like it or not, we are burning a lot of electricity on datacenters. That is a fact. And energy consumption is likely going to significantly increase in the near future. If we can reduce that energy usage, that is a good thing and a big improvement. I do not think I even understand your complaint. Different people can work on different problems. We do not have to pick only one. > My improvement is more imp…
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I am hoping nuclear batteries make a comeback by the desire for all this compute and its voracious appetite for energy.
We have rolls royce small modular reactors (SMRs) driving a similar functionality in the UK
Not operating today like it sounds from the comment.