[SeekAndFind]

Ireland is not alone in this dilemma. The United Kingdom is expected to see a 500% increase of energy demand from AI over the next ten years. Sweden, which has a climate ideally suited to naturally cooling data centers, could see related power demand grow two-fold within the decade, followed by another two-fold increase by 2040. The United States, too, is already facing considerable power crunches due to AI expansion. At a global level, the energy consumption by data centers alone is expected to top 1,580 TWh – around the equivalent of the entire country of India, the most populated nation on Earth.

[ClearCase_guy]

Gosh. I hope the wind increases 500% to keep up with the demand.

[ChuckHam]

Better expedite approval, and installation of small modular reactors.

[Jonty30]

You’d think they would put AI to work to figure out how to lower its energy needs without lowering it’s output.

[Wilhelm Tell]

Between running computers for AI and running computers for “mining” Bitcoin, there won’t be electricity for anything else!

[HYPOCRACY]

The green new deal is the only thing standing between AI and world domination.

[bigbob]

Northern Quebec. Massive hydro power and free cooling. No brainer.

[Blurb2350]

Wasn’t there talk recently of recommissioning Three Mile Island to power an AI company?

[TigersEye]

Where are the eco freaks protesting about this?

No Swedish bridge trolls out there loudly protesting AI?

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Is all this AI delivering any value?

The phone bots and chat bots deliver ZERO value so far. Call the bank with a moderately complex question and the bot says completely useless things like “I can tell you your balance. Or I can tell you the last purchase you made.”

The only thing the bots are good for is saying “Our call volume is heavier than usual and our menu options have changed. We can call you back in sixteen days, twenty two hours, and ten minutes.”

[Cold Heart]

In the movie Mummy, the mummy goes around and sucks the life essence out of people to rejuvenate himself.

AI will go around and suck the energy out of EV’s.

[Sgt_Schultze]

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.

[GOPJ]

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.”

Maybe something's going on we're not aware of...

[Paladin2]

Power to the People……..

[Paladin2]

Park all of the EVs.

[Paladin2]

The should push the excess heat to local homes.

In Alaska and Siberia.

[TalBlack]

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.