Nice, we'll be able to consume the Earth's resources even faster. Congrats everyone!
The resources are there for us to consume
Dell exec reveals Nvidia has a 1,000-watt GPU in the works
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Huh? This is an AI accelerator card. So you should be looking at performance per Watt, instead of absolute numbers. The linked article doesn't mention anything about that.
Yeah so they should increase the efficiency instead of the power.
Yes, but this usually happens when they cannot increase the power anymore. (remember CPUs ?)
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Well, there's no yeah, because there's no ratio... For all you could know energy went twofold and performance threefold..
They said nothing about performance, and if you think it increased without them saying anything about it, then you're being highly optimistic. Right now I can only assume they made it easier to burn more energy.
> They said nothing about performance
1kW says a lot about perfornance. You can heat a house with it. /s
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#54Those dedicated gpus draw way too much power. Why isnt there more focus on low power cards?
Same on cpus.
Electricity prices are set to drastically increase in my area.
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I must disagree. Do you oppose renewable energy? If not then by definition, it is possible to use more energy and not deplete any natural resources. The consumer blaming technique is one fossil fuel companies like to spread and I believe you are inadvertently spreading. I was just reading an HN post about AWS getting rights to a nuclear powerplant. FAANG companies are getting more and more carbon neutral datacenters.…
Renewable energy does deplete a lot of natural resources. Even assuming it is carbon neutral (it isn't). Even assuming we're still capable of constructing those without fossil energy (we currently can't). Even assuming mining of various minerals is done without fossil energy (it isn't). Even assuming it doesn't require any mining (it does). It still largely requires "natural surfaces" where we have to disrupt local e…
Unless you speak of the supernatural, all resources are natural. Humans and our desire for energy is also natural. Ecosystem disruption is also natural since we are natural also. The only question is sustainability. More solar farms in the desert disrupts an ecosystem but not to the extent of causing species to die off or a food chain collapse that affects humans. More nuclear plants use more fissile material but at such low volume and extraction cost it's negligible.
If you take a walk through the woods you'll step on grass and insects and cause damage. It's unnatural to live without interacting and harming flora and fauna and there are plenty of energy sources to sustain humans for millenia to come.
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Huh? This is an AI accelerator card. So you should be looking at performance per Watt, instead of absolute numbers. The linked article doesn't mention anything about that.
As long as we insist on doing the same thing, we will never use less in total. Point me to any sizable consumption field where gains in efficiency didn't translate to more usage.
The transition from incandescent to LED lighting, perhaps?
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The best way to enjoy HN is to just ignore these comments. There are a lot of bored, angsty, frustrated, lonely people, many struggling with mental illness that like to make comments like this for no other reason than getting attention.
Not everyone who doesn't share your worldview is mentally ill.
> Nice, we'll be able to consume the Earth's resources even faster. Congrats everyone!
That isn't a worldview, it's a drive-by troll comment intent on inciting people.
It adds nothing to the discussion.