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How Much Energy Do AI Data Centers Suck Up? Enough to Restart Three Mile Island For
Hotair ^ | 09/20/2024 | Beege Welborn

Posted on 09/20/2024 8:42:00 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 09/20/2024 8:42:00 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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Some reports say the Microsoft AI data center could eventually suck up all 850 megawatts.


2 posted on 09/20/2024 8:45:50 PM PDT by steve86 (Numquam accusatus, numquam ad curiam ibit, numquam ad carcerem™)
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To: SeekAndFind

Make sure to thank a libtard.

The 20 percent or so of the population that believe in what they are told to fear and protested nuclear power are the same people that destroyed our present world.


3 posted on 09/20/2024 8:51:40 PM PDT by jdt1138 (Where ever you go, there you are.)
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4 posted on 09/20/2024 9:00:52 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Funny how quiet the left is.


5 posted on 09/20/2024 9:17:00 PM PDT by Yardstick
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been to TMI twice...both times, Unit 1 was running at full power. Parking lot was actually vibrating under my feet. Power of all Power.


6 posted on 09/20/2024 9:25:37 PM PDT by basalt
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Didn’t realize how much power that AI required & I have to wonder if it is even worth it. What’s AI going to do for the average citizen?


7 posted on 09/20/2024 9:30:21 PM PDT by oldtech
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To: SeekAndFind

(Barf Alert)
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Jane Fonda will be all excited to be making:

“The China Syndrome II: Microsoft’s Hot Water from Hell”

She finds a Glow Bull downriver, dead,
in hot water discharged from the reactor.

Someone shot the Glow Bull with an antique Chinese
anti-aircraft gun. And it WAS loaded after all!

She wonders watts up. Very sus.
But is is HER they suspect.

The police chase on her Hoveround,
paid for by Obamacare,
is a highlight scene of the movie.

She ekskapes finally through the spatiotemporal vortex in
the 4.828032 Kilometer Island nuc-you-lar reactor core
to the land of Barbarella, to get her hairs cut,
never to return to earth again.


8 posted on 09/20/2024 9:33:05 PM PDT by Weirdad (Orthodox Americanism: It's what's good for the world! (Not communifascism!))
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What’s it gonna do for the average citizen? Track their every bit of data. That’s all.


9 posted on 09/20/2024 9:57:13 PM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) Be careful what you say. Your refrigerator may be listening & reporting you.)
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To: basalt

Damn


10 posted on 09/20/2024 10:10:08 PM PDT by onona
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To: SeekAndFind
What the media isn't talking about is why the massive amount of power are being required. It actually isn't directly consumed much by the servers. The power load comes from the massive amount of cooling equipment required to keep both the servers and buildings they are housed in cooled to operational specifications.

The A/C units use massive A/C systems which cool water, which is pumped to air handling units, which distribute the air supply.

To give you some idea a 300 Ton capacity chiller would require about 2000 amps at 460 volts on start up draw then taper off within seconds to say 300 amps operational load. The actual heat load of a server farm I have no idea but I do know that companies like BIT COIN require so much A/C capacity that the noise alone generated by the cooling towers outside make them an unwanted neighbor for about a mile.

Over time electronics have changed. My ship an aircraft carrier had 3-150 Ton units, 6-200 ton units, and 1-350 ton unit. This was in 1980 That meant 2000 tons cooling capacity with a total power load of roughly way 0ver 2000 amps total combined power load at 460 volts. Today's carrier like the FORD have 20,000 capacity.

Taking this further hospitals also for obvious reasons have a very high load demand for cooling. This is for the diagnostics such as MRI, CT, etc. Commercial A/C for large buildings is one of the power grids biggest consumers. Thus the Solar, Wind, renewables, are of absolutely no benefit.

11 posted on 09/20/2024 10:28:21 PM PDT by cva66snipe
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And AI is going to do what...? Figure PI to the hundred quintillionth place? Anything useful?

Or is it going toward the worldwide spying ops I’ve read about?

Or the effort to quantify and put a price tag on every item, live or inantimate, in the world so it can be bought up by our betters?

With Gates involved, he will no doubt use AI to more efficiently exterminate billions.


12 posted on 09/20/2024 10:53:07 PM PDT by citizen (Put all LBQTwhatever programming on a new subscription service: PERV-TV)
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Since most of the energy is needed for cooling it makes the most sense to build your data center in a cold place. Like Alaska or even Antarctic. You merely pump cold ocean water into the heat exchangers. All that warm water created would be a draw for all sorts of life.


13 posted on 09/20/2024 11:06:36 PM PDT by Nateman (Democrats did not strive for fraud friendly voting merely to continue honest elections.)
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I did a proposal for some work out near the Tri-Cities in Washington. They wanted me to look at six sites where they were going to put in giant buildings (something like 500’ x 200’) just to house computers. One small area with some office space and a couple of bathrooms, but it would all be operated remotely.

I figured they were looking at the six sites and then would choose the best one after my site assessments were done. Nope - they were building six new facilities.


14 posted on 09/20/2024 11:09:13 PM PDT by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant - Never Fearful)
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I just looked at one of the sites on Google Earth. I was wrong on the size of the buildings.

1,080 feet long and 200 feet wide.

And five buildings like that at just the one site.

That’s a lot of laptops stacked on top of each other!


15 posted on 09/20/2024 11:13:42 PM PDT by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant - Never Fearful)
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A lot of planning in progress here for the economic development zones of Hanford.


16 posted on 09/20/2024 11:26:31 PM PDT by steve86 (Numquam accusatus, numquam ad curiam ibit, numquam ad carcerem™)
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“All that warm water created would be a draw for all sorts of life.”

Good luck getting an environmental permit for that. IIRC, at some facilities where they draw in contaminated river water they not only have to cool the water down before it is released back into the river (which makes sense for rivers) they also have to remove the contaminants from the water they used before they return it to the river!


17 posted on 09/20/2024 11:27:02 PM PDT by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant - Never Fearful)
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Perhaps a pipe going deep into the ocean which would pull out cold water then return it warm to the surface far from the shore. With the money Gates has bribes to get the permits would be easy .


18 posted on 09/20/2024 11:40:36 PM PDT by Nateman (Democrats did not strive for fraud friendly voting merely to continue honest elections.)
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To: SeekAndFind

My guess for now:

Large computing tasks will be sent to space for processing.

IOW, the data centers will be in orbit around the earth.


19 posted on 09/21/2024 12:08:15 AM PDT by linMcHlp
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Bfl


20 posted on 09/21/2024 2:24:20 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (Thinking objectively is difficult. And painful. That’s why many people just cling to their biases.)
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