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Heatwave is no joke...
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AI isn't yet slurping any significantly obscene amount of power from the grid, although as it gets more ubiquitous that will surely change. The individual data centers are massive things but they are outnumbered by orders of magnitude by all the rest of it
The big villain in senseless datacenter power usage is cryptocurrency
Plus most of the rest of it, of course, acres of racks burning through the world's resources to run the world's ten millionth pink slime news factory or Youtube click fakery cluster, or whatever
But AI isn't yet adding its useless weight to the groaning pile in any significant way
Based on what, your gut feeling?
Here's an article based directly on Microsoft's own sustainability reports outright saying that their electricity consumption has gone up 30% because of AI: https://www.latitudemedia.com/news/microsoft-reveals-the-energy-impact-of-artificial-intelligence
This is a pretty good article about it, with this being the relevant graph:
Like I say, it’s going to become a significant thing, and I’m sure for the tiny fraction of all the world’s data centers that are operated by Microsoft specifically it already is, but it isn’t yet, on a global scale.
Fair, but it's pretty much on track to be the new crypto of energy usage. We're just a few years out for it to get fully ramped up
Is that the verge as a source
Not really. The primary sources for the chart are actually in the image, and there’s a link in the Verge article if you’re able to read academic papers.
It was a joke
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I still do not understand the joke then
The verge put out a really terrible PC building guide about 5 years ago which hurt their reputation. So the joke is just that the verge isn't trust worthy.
But that was 5 years ago and they corrected their mistakes since.
And when this guy says terrible, they basically put out a video where they did everything wrong to an almost impressive degree