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I watched Nvidia's Computex 2024 keynote and it made my blood run cold (www.techradar.com)
submitted 3 months ago by jdrm@lemmy.sdf.org to c/fuck_ai@lemmy.world
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One million Blackwell GPUs would suck down an astonishing 1.875 gigawatts of power. For context, a typical nuclear power plant only produces 1 gigawatt of power.

Fossil fuel-burning plants, whether that's natural gas, coal, or oil, produce even less. There's no way to ramp up nuclear capacity in the time it will take to supply these millions of chips, so much, if not all, of that extra power demand is going to come from carbon-emitting sources.

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[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 19 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Bingo, same argument I've had to bring up with crypto bros, if it's using green energy that could be used to power essential things that are powered by fossil fuel then it's green energy that we're wasting. All these projects should be put on hold until we're running on 100% green energy and we produce enough surplus that we can afford to use it for non essentials.

[–] bizarroland@fedia.io 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Seems like the smart move would make a mandate that any AI data center that wants to activate needs to provide its own power from wind and solar, or at least build or contribute to an existing wind and solar plant on the same grid to offset their estimated power consumption watt for watt.

[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Same issue, why shouldn't we use that to replace fossil fuel elsewhere instead? The land they're using to produce green energy could be used to do the same but for essential needs instead.

[–] bizarroland@fedia.io 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I see what you're saying, and I get that I'm in the fuck AI magazine.

[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago

Funny, I hadn't even noticed myself 😂