Posted on 11/23/2024 5:13:08 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Ireland is set to become the next country to face a major threat to its power grid due to the rapid expansion of artificial intelligence. Dublin has emerged as the heart of Europe’s data center hub, and hyperscale cloud providers have quickly become a pillar of the country’s economy. But powering the data centers that house the cloud has become a monumental task with the runaway growth of AI.
Artificial intelligence requires a stunning amount of energy to train and power its complex computation systems. Currently, the approximate amount of energy needed to sustain the sector’s growth is doubling every 100 days. At a global level, the AI sector alone could be responsible for 3.5 percent of all energy consumption by 2030 according to expert projections. “When you look at the numbers, it is staggering,” Jason Shaw, chairman of the Georgia Public Service Commission, an electricity regulator, told the Washington Post earlier this year. “It makes you scratch your head and wonder how we ended up in this situation. How were the projections that far off? This has created a challenge like we have never seen before.”
Already, the yearly power consumption of AI is more than most entire countries – only 16 nations in the entire world consume more annually. Ireland is a hotspot country – along with Saudi Arabia and Malaysia – where existing energy supplies are simply insufficient to power the data centers currently planned. “The almost overnight surge in electricity demand from data centers is now outstripping the available power supply in many parts of the world,” Bloomberg reported in June.
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Youtube lol cat videos take precedent over running computers for AI and running computers for “mining” Bitcoin.
Better hurry up and deport illegals to their turd world homes to reduce pressure on the grid in Trump World.
Not only is there no hope of meeting AI increases in demand, there’s no hope of producing enough transformers to distribute the power (even if it could be generated).
AI will go around and suck the energy out of EV’s.
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Will be producing power by 2028 theoretically.
Time to build more. Make America Nuclear Again.
Good thing we elected a builder. Builder Don.
It should be mandated that AI use only verifiable “green” power. No trades, no credits, just certifiable, verifiable “green” power. If such power isn’t available at scale, the price should be adjusted to the identical per kilowatt cost for local “green” electricity. The differential should go to lowering the cost to residential users to offset their higher prices.
Maybe something's going on we're not aware of...
Power to the People……..
Park all of the EVs.
The should push the excess heat to local homes.
In Alaska and Siberia.
This AI is kinda creepy in spots. There is a commercial for something or other Cellular, their commercials are drenched in the color orange, where the main female announcer clearly isn’t a human being. Watching her talk is cringey as hell.
The “Matrix” will sort this all out.
The “Matrix” will sort this all out.
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