• Nightwatch Admin@feddit.nl
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    2 months ago

    “While nuclear fusion seems like the perfect solution for AI’s power needs due to its non-existent impact on the environment…”

    nonexistent is key here.

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      2 months ago

      Non-existent power source for a non-existent tech, a match made in heaven

      (meaning what they hype as AI is actually mostly just LLM)

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      2 months ago

      Second law of thermodynamics would like to chime in, even with such a perfect nonexistent power source, waste heat is still an issue… which you can radiate to space, which would take tremendous land use to facilitate…

      Or we use that land and capital and effort for solar power, which exists and could power practically everything in our lives, minus AI. Sounds like a win to me.

      (Also not to mention the necessity to fire up more fossils for this shit to compensate for the current lack of miracle power for their pipe dreams)

  • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    But we will soon have AGI, and then you can have your very own JARVIS! Don’t you like Iron Man? Don’t you like super heroes? Don’t you like sci-fi? /s

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    No matter which way you correctly read the headline, it’s false.

    You can either read it as Google and microsoft individually consumed more electricity than these 100 countries did (false, it’s Google and microsoft combined)

    OR Google and Microsoft combined consimed more than these 100 countries did total.

    Did an intern write this or something?

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    2 months ago

    Are we talking consumed for their own use? Or consumed as part of delivering cloud services to their customers?

    These are very different things. The former would be horrifying the latter would be misleading in the extreme.

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      2 months ago

      I think it is the customers who pay for the electricity that they use? Las time I checked MS didn’t pay anything in my electric bill.

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        2 months ago

        Well you don’t have 1000 vms running in azure, do you? It’s not about your Xbox…

      • doggle@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        2 months ago

        For software and devices running locally, sure. Much of what MS does these days is cloud based where the bulk of the electricity is being used in a data center somewhere and the customer isn’t (directly) paying for it.

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    2 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    Generative AI is taking the world by storm, and its impact is evident across all sectors, including medicine, education, music, computing, and more.

    According to a detailed analysis by Michael Thomas, this surpasses the power consumption of over 100 nations, including Ghana, Tunisia, and more (via Tom’s Hardware).

    Some of the downsides to advancements in the AI landscape include the degradation of the environment, however, Google and Microsoft are big on renewable energy and have been championing the campaign while seeking alternative power sources.

    Elon Musk claimed we’re on the verge of the biggest technology breakthrough with AI, but there won’t be enough power by 2025.

    Sam Altman has been exploring a potential alternative power source for OpenAI’s AI efforts, with nuclear fusion at the top of his list.

    While nuclear fusion seems like the perfect solution for AI’s power needs due to its non-existent impact on the environment, scientists and researchers say it’s “too late to deal with the climate crisis” and view fission and renewable energy as better options.


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    2 months ago

    They want to become carbon neutralbut climate crisis is already running.

    Feels like build „don’t smoke here“ - signs in our forests while they are burning.