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What AI's insatiable appetite for power means for our future
Fox News ^ | y Kurt Knutsson

Posted on 07/24/2025 8:32:47 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Every time you ask ChatGPT a question, to generate an image or let artificial intelligence summarize your email, something big is happening behind the scenes. Not on your device, but in sprawling data centers filled with servers, GPUs and cooling systems that require massive amounts of electricity.

The modern AI boom is pushing our power grid to its limits. ChatGPT alone processes roughly 1 billion queries per day, each requiring data center resources far beyond what’s on your device.

In fact, the energy needed to support artificial intelligence, cloud computing and even crypto mining is rising so quickly that it has already delayed the retirement of several coal plants in the U.S., with more delays expected. Some experts warn that the AI arms race is outpacing the infrastructure meant to support it. Others argue it could spark long-overdue clean energy innovation.

AI isn't just reshaping apps and search engines. It's also reshaping how we build, fuel and regulate the digital world. The race to scale up AI capabilities is accelerating faster than most infrastructure can handle, and energy is becoming the next major bottleneck.

Here’s a look at how AI is changing the energy equation, and what it might mean for our climate future.

Why AI uses so much power, and what drives the demand

Running artificial intelligence at scale requires enormous computational power. Unlike traditional internet activity, which mostly involves pulling up stored information, AI tools perform intensive real-time processing. Whether training massive language models or responding to user prompts, AI systems rely on specialized hardware like GPUs (graphics processing unit) that consume far more power than legacy servers. GPUs are designed to handle many calculations in parallel, which is perfect for the matrix-heavy workloads that power generative AI and deep learning systems.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ai; ecoterrorism; ecoterrorists; energy; globalwarminghoax; greennewdeal; grid; infrastructure; power
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To: SeekAndFind

Questions:
Currently AI produces a large number of factual errors and a large number of controversial opinions it can’t back up.

If AI had more “learning” would the error rate decrease?
Or
Is the error rate due to GIGO-Garbage In, Garbage Out?
Or
Is the error rate due to bad logic, bad algorithms?

Will AI accept that bigger is always better and continue to ignore quality and factual truth?

Does the direction of AI depend (in part) on available energy?


21 posted on 07/24/2025 9:37:04 AM PDT by spintreebob
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To: SeekAndFind

Wes Moore, the moronic governor of Maryland stupidly thinks that Maryland can be a hub for this stuff. Notwithstanding they have shut down several power plants and buy a huge amount of power from other states and the lunatic asylum and legislature just passed a 3% tech tax.

They are also stealing massive amounts of farmland under eminent domain to run power lines through the state for a Virginia based AI outfit.

Stealing Maryland property for utterly zero benefit to Maryland. Morons.


22 posted on 07/24/2025 9:38:49 AM PDT by cyclotic (Don’t be part of the problem. Be the entire problem)
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To: SeekAndFind

Personally, I’d just pull the plug on all of it.


23 posted on 07/24/2025 9:39:40 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: SeekAndFind

So, how can the purpose of AI really be worth it?


24 posted on 07/24/2025 9:43:42 AM PDT by Racketeer
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To: BipolarBob

This “Race to beat other countries” is a stupid concept. Race to what end? The race off the cliff to our own self enslavement and eventual self destruction? We would actually be better off letting them win because that is the reality of it in the long run...


25 posted on 07/24/2025 9:45:44 AM PDT by Openurmind (AI - An Illusion for Aptitude Intrusion to Alter Intellect. )
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To: Racketeer

“So, how can the purpose of AI really be worth it?”

It is not... But everyone has been brainwashed.


26 posted on 07/24/2025 9:46:41 AM PDT by Openurmind (AI - An Illusion for Aptitude Intrusion to Alter Intellect. )
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To: 9YearLurker

Absolutely... It has huge “No Go” red flags all over it.


27 posted on 07/24/2025 9:47:53 AM PDT by Openurmind (AI - An Illusion for Aptitude Intrusion to Alter Intellect. )
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To: All

It means SkyNet takes over!


28 posted on 07/24/2025 9:49:32 AM PDT by MplsSteve
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To: PGR88
The fact is this energy demand will be met by natural gas.

We're supposed to build 80 new gas-fired power plants by 2030.

29 posted on 07/24/2025 9:49:57 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: KrisKrinkle

Or an EMP. It is absolutely stupid and less “secure” to put all your eggs in one basket. Just look at what already happens with mass outages.


30 posted on 07/24/2025 9:50:51 AM PDT by Openurmind (AI - An Illusion for Aptitude Intrusion to Alter Intellect. )
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To: MinorityRepublican
We're supposed to build 80 new gas-fired power plants by 2030.

And nuclear, wind/solar, battery storage will be built faster? Impossible.

31 posted on 07/24/2025 9:55:41 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: SeekAndFind

AI is nothing more than a search engine on steroids.


32 posted on 07/24/2025 9:58:07 AM PDT by Bobbyvotes (TERM LIMITS is the ONLY WAY to get rid of corrupt career politicians. )
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To: Openurmind
Bingo!
33 posted on 07/24/2025 10:00:00 AM PDT by Bobbyvotes (TERM LIMITS is the ONLY WAY to get rid of corrupt career politicians. )
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To: Bobbyvotes

“AI is nothing more than a search engine on steroids.”

Your knowledge on AI is sorely deficient.


34 posted on 07/24/2025 10:00:39 AM PDT by TexasGator (There is no Sharknado system)
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To: SeekAndFind

Trump Says He Didn’t Even Know What Nvidia Was

“What the hell is Nvidia? I’ve never heard of it before.”

While announcing his new so-called “AI Action Plan,” which is primarily designed to eliminate regulatory hurdles for the industry, president Donald Trump made some baffling remarks.

While standing next to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, whose chipmaker leads the S&P 500 Top 10 Index with a multi-trillion-dollar market cap, Trump admitted he had no idea what Nvidia was, as Tom’s Hardware noticed.

Due to the president’s garbled communication style, it’s unclear at what point he was unaware of what is currently the world’s most valuable company. However, he did seem to suggest that he had previously wanted to break up the AI industry, for reasons that remained unexplained.

“I said, look, we’ll break this guy up — this is before I learned the facts of life — I said we’ll break ‘em up,” he said, while alluding to Huang. “I said, ‘Who the hell is he? What’s his name?’ ‘His name is Jensen Huang, Nvidia, ‘ I said, ‘What the hell is Nvidia?’ I’ve never heard of it before.”

The baffling remarks underline just how uninformed the president often is on key issues, leaving it up to his aides to explain them to him.

https://futurism.com/trump-didnt-know-nvidia

Exactly what I said last night. He has no clue what tech is slipping in on him.


35 posted on 07/24/2025 10:06:00 AM PDT by Openurmind (AI - An Illusion for Aptitude Intrusion to Alter Intellect. )
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To: SeekAndFind

This is awesome! Finally we can get over our fear of nuclear power because that is the only way we can get enough energy. Solar power and wind won’t cut it. AI will be pissed if we tell it that we are going to feed it wind and solar. AI is going to think we want it to be vegan.


36 posted on 07/24/2025 10:14:11 AM PDT by webheart (Notice how I said all of that without any hyphens, and only complete words. )
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To: SeekAndFind

Hopefully it means that we create more energy, my bill is going up at 3-4 times the rate of inflation, that’s ridiculous. Energy prices should be declining.


37 posted on 07/24/2025 10:15:42 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: SeekAndFind
Turn it all off.

Who needs it?

38 posted on 07/24/2025 10:18:30 AM PDT by grobdriver (The CDC can KMA!)
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To: 1Old Pro

Mine is the cheapest in the nation and isn’t going up. The provider has begun construction on a fusion reactor built on the site of a fromer coal fired plant.


39 posted on 07/24/2025 10:18:52 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Where is ZORRO when California so desperately needs him?)
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To: Bobbyvotes

RE: AI is nothing more than a search engine on steroids

That’s an understatement.


40 posted on 07/24/2025 10:18:58 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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