How Much Energy Does AI Use? The People Who Know Aren’t Saying
How Much Energy Does AI Use? The People Who Know Aren’t Saying
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How Much Energy Does AI Use? The People Who Know Aren’t Saying
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The oil industry must be so giddy to have found a new scape goat out of nowhere.
Datacenters take a lot of energy because they serve a lot of people. The impact can be lessened with a proper grid centered around renewable.
There are actual things that are fucking up the planet, individuals using AI, gaming or having a Google account aren't the actual issue.
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Data center demand has created huge backlog of gas turbine orders. They're not planning on renewables for the next big expansion
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You are correct that renewable energy would help but if huge amounts of power are specifically being drawn for AI data centers that is part of the equation. Just like it's reduce/reuse/recycle in that order for handling items, it should be reduce/renewable for power, and we should have to build the renewable infrastructure before building more data centers.
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An unholy amount.
An amount guaranteed to spike climate targets a decade early.
Stoopid much.
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Replace the CEOs with ai or fuck off
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at least 3
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This maths
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A problem is that the information is not in the hands of the company selling the AI. The actual hardware is often owned by service providers and independent data centers.
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They know exactly what the power consumption of that hardware is though. This isnt tough to figure out just because you use a cloud provider
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Well, I work at an AI hyperscaler. I can tell you how much my facility uses, and how much each rack uses, but don't have any way to determine what the customer is doing on that server. Or even which servers a given customer is using. Is it being used heavily for queries? How many? Of what kind? We don't know. Only what the rack/row/pod/hall is consuming.
Also, does the network gear overhead count? How do you apportion that?
We have no visibility into the customer workload. Some of our customers use our systems for scientific research. Drugs, etc. How do you tally that?
I'm not saying that it is impossible, just that if the customer won't pay for that report, we're not going to spend money to build the systems to produce it.
Do I agree? No. But I'm just a grunt.
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So much that now they want to turn nuclear reactors back on. Not because it’s green energy but because it’s free energy for them
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Too damn much for the value it creates.