Posted on 11/24/2024 2:29:16 PM PST by DFG
There’s something else going on here besides this artificial intelligence can’t even reason
Interesting i just asked Perplexity how much electricity it uses to answer just one question.
here is the answer.
According to recent calculations, ChatGPT uses approximately 0.0029 kilowatt-hours of electricity to answer a single question, which is nearly ten times more energy than a typical Google search that consumes about 0.0003 kilowatt-hours per query.
“Renewable energy alone won’t be sufficient to meet their power needs.”
Oh, Spencer, come on! Everybody knows the Unicorn Fart Generator is going to do the job.
At a high rate of 25¢/kWh, the cost of the power to answer one question is 0.000725 cents.
Which is why Microsoft is buying Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant and renewing its license.
Enough power there to power two cities
I am not exactly crazy about Microsoft owning a power plant but I am glad that the plant is not being decommissioned
This is why after years of telling consumers to live with expensive ‘green energy’ the tech giants are getting ready to bring online nuclear energy.
Good for them but not for us...
AI industry run by billionaires.
AI needs huge amounts of electricity.
Regular consumers need electricity to live.
Who is going to get the electricity?
Hook up solar panels and windmills.
Electricity generated by solar and wind is undependable and Dirty.
Computers require dependable and Clean power.
Dirty power is power that is not Regular which means that its wave form is very constant. Clean power does not vary in its amplitude or frequency.
Solar and wind can not supply clean power
Which is why the push to EV’s. They don’t give a rat’s behind whether you can drive, or not. They just want the electricity generation.
1.21 Gigawatts! Great Scott!
I am not exactly crazy about Microsoft owning a power plant
Not exactly the place where you want to see a Blue Screen Of Death.
A much more important priority than air conditioning, heating, or electric cars.
Anyone pushing these things should have to build and provide their own power sources. In the mean time, if they draw more than our systems can provide, they get shut down first. They don’t like it...tough, get off the grid.
Sounds like AI is metastasizing.
Is this a good use of power ?
Microsoft has never owned a nuclear power plant
Having worked at one for 37 years and in that time worked under 3 different owners, one of which had no experience as being the owner operator of nuclear power generation, I can tell you that managing a nuclear power plant is different than anything most businessmen are accustomed to.
And most management types are not the type are ready to accept that they could be wrong.
Yes, because it will be used to enslave us.
Or worse.
When the elite want tools to allow them to dominate their citizens there is never a shortage of precious resources.
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