"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."
"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."
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@catc0n so much power... and no Dyson sphere in sight
Such projections are just another form of "drill, drill, drill" , quite literally they want to see the world burn up
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1. it takes 1.875 gigawatts
2. nuclear plant offers 1 gigawatt
3. there’s no way we can meet the demand
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