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For a better sense of scale: it's about 2% of the average US electricity consumption, and about the same as the average electricity consumption of the Netherlan
by Recursing 1y ago
For a better sense of scale: it's about 2% of the average US electricity consumption, and about the same as the average electricity consumption of the Netherlands (18 million people)
- tonyhart7 1y agoWtf, and this is from 1 company How many atrophic,xAi,google,Microsoft would be???? having around 5% entire country infrastructure on AI hardware seems excessive no???
- bcrosby95 1y agoAround 5% in the next 5 years for AI alone sounds pretty in-line with projections I've seen.
- randomNumber7 1y agoIsn't this pretty bad for the climate? I don't dare to ask ChatGPT now /S
- Recursing 1y agoNo this is from just one partnership, my sense is that OpenAI alone wants more than that. 5% to 10% of US electricity going to AI in 10 years is consistent with the current valuations of AI companies.
- udkl 1y agoFor another sense of scale: A 500MW AI-centric datacenter could cost $10 billion or more to build. So 10GW is $200 billion!