well if you were going to study this you’d probably have to look at water/energy requirements for current super computing. the main problem with AI data centers, i’ve read, is scalability, i.e., they don’t. the human brain designed by God which is much better hardware than any AI in our very best and talented, is a miracle of miniaturization and power conservation. thus it is the very definition of how to scale amazing capacities which must balance each other perfectly.
that being said. AI is the key to gov’t control of our behavior, our medicine, public health, public education, and future machines however. that makes it irresistible to our self styled and entitled masters and they must pursuit it for those reasons alone.
but one hopes it can be done to some advantage for our children’s future. i like everything Elon has done lately. i hope he’s successful in putting these in space or maybe on the moon if they need a foundation and persistence over time. he embodies a real hope for the future.
Scalability will come with time.
Back in 1999 when TeraServer was moving I backed up their data which was just under 4 tb, I had 6 fujitsu 42u racks of drive arrays. I think they were huge 8.4gb drives
in these datacenters everything is switched out every 3-6 years
the typical server which will be installed today will have 2 processors with 128 cores, and a few TB of ram, yes I know you can get more cores, but it is a trade off between cores and speed per core.
today I have 24tb drives, yes one drive 24tb and I could get larger, maybe I can put 12 drives in a server with 2tb ram and 512 logical cores, but that is only today, what about in 5 years, or 10 years
like I said scalability is only about time.
and there is no such thing as Agi yet. I dont know if there will be. maybe it will just get closer and closer and never happen.
every time today I ask an “AI” something I as reflex say “ you are full of crap “ try again and it comes up with a different answer. today what is called AI is LLM which means it regurgitates whatever it is fed
I think I read today something about how govts are trying to manipulate LLM
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/26/fake-thinktank-israel-ai-propaganda?
This sounds true.