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Build new data centers near sources of power, and grid capacity isn’t going to be a problem. Heck, American industry used to follow that (building garment facto
by seanmcdirmid 2y ago
Build new data centers near sources of power, and grid capacity isn’t going to be a problem. Heck, American industry used to follow that (building garment factories on fast moving rivers before electricity was much of a thing, Boeing grew up in the northwest due to cheap aluminum helped out by hydro). Why is AI somehow different from an airplane?
- wmf 2y agoThey'll have to build new power generation and build the data centers next to it.
- sitkack 2y agoYou are massively conflating what is possible with what is done.
- seanmcdirmid 2y agoI know data centers are built next to wind farms for these reasons already. We have an abundance of those projects out here in the PNW.