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"One million Blackwell GPUs would suck down an astonishing 1.875 gigawatts of power. For context, a typical nuclear power plant only produces 1 gigawatt of power. Fossil fuel-burning plants, whether that's natural gas, coal, or oil, produce even less. There's no way to ramp up nuclear capacity in the time it will take to supply these millions of chips, so much, if not all, of that extra power demand is going to come from carbon-emitting sources." 36 comments
@nini @catc0n There isn't much to do than educate the people around us. I've been trying many years since late 90s when I switched to Linux, but most people are resisting. Brainwashing has been quite effective. My greatest achiement is that I have convinced my family to use at least @signalapp For the most times I get really weird looks when I talk about privacy and security stuff. So be it.  @catc0n I don’t understand how that is financially viable, let alone the environmental impact. The current gen cards are in the $100k range to purchase - I have no idea how much power they use but less than this new one, and are already not making money.   @catc0n for what it's worth, the projection for newly installed (so additional) solar capacity in 2024 is 574 GW and for wind it's 125 GW [1]. An additional 1.9 GW of demand isn't going to impact the energy transition in a significant way. [1], see page 28: https://ember-climate.org/app/uploads/2024/05/Report-Global-Electricity-Review-2024.pdf   @catc0n Our need for ugly derivative art and poorly-written sophomoric prose will be our undoing, an appropriate end for an annoying animal. @catc0n   @catc0n building a nuclear power station might take well over a decade by comparison. not that I'm a big fan of nuclear power and think that should be our plan for solving this crisis. @catc0n they will regulate our farts before they actually take the responsibility  @catc0n To be sure, it's a frightening scenario - I'm wondering if they can 'Moore's Law' the power demands of the chip, or our ability to supply clean energy - that'd be a way solve this. I think we're in a serious 'too many horses' scenario where the sheer amount of horses was killing the quality of life in NYC or other cities. Then we found the 'horseless carriage.' Cars / exhaust are their own problems of course - we must never stop looking for answers.  @johne Haha, I think it's happening?! I swear I saw an NYT article on a "new generation of Luddites" recently @catc0n welcome to the end, they cannot be convinced, only excited about opportunities to speed up the inevitable.    @catc0n @Nonya_Bidniss This sounds like a great idea for when Musk has a Dyson sphere power station and beams the energy to his AI monolith on Luna. Humanity should be about a Type 1.5 civilization by then. Or maybe reactors using matter-antimatter?  the AI hype is being funded by Saudi Arabia and Qatar 🧐   1. it takes 1.875 gigawatts not sure how these statements can follow each other and not be a joke okay fine, i’ll say it. 2 nuclear power plants. we can do it with 2 of them. that’s how it’s possible. maybe we shouldn’t be shutting down nuclear power. that seems, in hindsight, to have been a very bad idea |
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@catc0n The addiction for power and the addiction for "power" have finally met. I think a super AGI won't be needed in order to destroy humanity. We will do it together with our Junkie-computer friends! One big dope party!