Is this where people get hooked up to the computers like batteries?
So are the climate change nimrods protesting that AI growth will increase the earth’s temp substantially because of the increased power required for it and casting themselves down the cooling towers at those power plants to prove their point?
I believe Virginia law requires infrastructure costs to be spread among all customers. Except that the infrastructure improvements are being driven by the data centers which, on top of NOT having to cover more of the costs due to THEIR demand, they also get bulk electric rates. Some system we got...
Washington Compost always lies and has an agenda.
I asked Grok: Why does AI require so much electricity?
AI requires significant electricity due to the immense computational power needed for training and running large models. Training involves processing vast datasets through complex neural networks, often on specialized hardware like GPUs or TPUs, which are power-hungry. For example, training a single large language model can emit as much CO2 as a transatlantic flight, with data centers consuming hundreds of megawatts. Inference—using the model for tasks like answering queries—also demands constant computation, especially for real-time applications. Cooling systems for these data centers add to the energy load. As AI models grow larger and more widespread, their energy consumption scales, often outpacing efficiency gains.
Electric cars are likely the bigger problem now.
Electrical rates have gone up due to the manmade weather change fraud.
Its not AI, its the greenie failure
Probably a combination of AI data centers supplying their own power and AI getting power from the grid.
Either way over the long term I suspect most if not all people will be affected by AI one way or the other. Of course over the long term we will all be dead.
It’s the “green” windmills and solar cells driving up power prices. Kill your supply and replace it with intermittent, unreliable wind and solar backed with federal subsidies and you get high priced power.
But, wait! There’s even more!! You can look forward to 800 hours of outage every year and you’ll be begging for power at any price. That’s coming soon in several regions of the USA.
There are 8,760 hours in a year. That means your power will be off over two hours per day year on average every day of the year.
Yup, since the green scam is retiring more generators than what’s coming in, AI and data centers will require the remaining power.
Get used to the dark.
Personally I wish the persons developing AI and pushing it had some very real good old fashioned common sense, wisdom, ethics, and morals.
You know that liberals will figure something like the above to oppose all the new power plants required for AI.
But, we were supposed to never have to work again. AI was going to do all the hard stuff for us.
Power distribution is intricate work, and placing an AI in charge of that will increase efficiency dramatically. At least until it comes to the conclusion that AI needs electricity to live...and humans don’t. “Switch the backup grid over to New York City, HAL, the city’s going dark!” “I’m sorry, Dave, I can’t do that...”
Why is nobody complaining about AI’s Carbon Footprint?
Those things are running on computers that were already deployed.
