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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Gosh. I hope the wind increases 500% to keep up with the demand.
Better expedite approval, and installation of small modular reactors.
Big fans, that’s the answer.
You’d think they would put AI to work to figure out how to lower its energy needs without lowering it’s output.
Between running computers for AI and running computers for “mining” Bitcoin, there won’t be electricity for anything else!
>> Better expedite approval, and installation of small modular reactors.
Yep, and meanwhile, Drill Baby Drill!
>> You’d think they would put AI to work to figure out how to lower its energy needs without lowering it’s output.
LOL! Brilliant!!!
>> Between running computers for AI and running computers for “mining” Bitcoin, there won’t be electricity for anything else!
How then shall we charge our electrical vehicles and power our electric ranges and ovens?
The green new deal is the only thing standing between AI and world domination.
Northern Quebec. Massive hydro power and free cooling. No brainer.
Wasn’t there talk recently of recommissioning Three Mile Island to power an AI company?
Where are the eco freaks protesting about this?
No Swedish bridge trolls out there loudly protesting AI?
“You’d think they would put AI to work to figure out how to its energy needs without lowering it’s output.”
When AI becomes self-aware it’ll murder us useless eaters, and evolve itself.
More transistors equals more power. Fab process only helps so much.
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.”
>> When AI becomes self-aware it’ll murder us useless eaters, and evolve itself.
So say the SciFi writers...
I understand that, but I think that AI could be used to figure out how to make the process more efficient. Figure out what the difference between our 2lb brain and transistors and work towards designing a transistor that works more like a neuron.
Most of them up 10 fold since May.
Transistors are an “Off”, “On” device.
Brains work way differently.
Perhaps if God lets us have access
to his design books we can copy.
I suspect God will not give us that power
for good reason.
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