Gregory's ServerOthers besides me have predicted this, and already it's coming true"
"US slows plans to retire coal plants as power demand from AI surges"
https://www.worldenergydata.org/us-slows-plans-to-retire-coal-plants-as-power-demand-from-ai-surges/
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It is even worse than that, not only will this AI hype slow down phasing out of fossil fuels, it will also lead to a huge rise in emission from chip and server production and data centre construction.
I wrote about this earlier, "The insatiable hunger of (Open)AI"
https://wimvanderbauwhede.codeberg.page/articles/the-insatiable-hunger-of-openai/
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