Are AI’s power requirements going to leave the rest of us energy poor? From T.L. Davis at tldavissubstack.com:
The artificial intelligence AI race is on and each world power seeks to outdo the others in this endeavor. That most of them can barely supply the current demand for electricity for several reasons make this look like some sort of muscle-flexing competition. It looks ridiculous, is what I’m saying. Those who have the electrical capacity to develop AI beyond the convenience that it can offer customer service, meme makers and app developers are going to dominate. That means China.
China has been putting online power stations every few weeks while the US has been hamstrung for the past several decades by EPA regulations and the Green New Deal, which is neither “green” nor any sort of “new deal.” It’s the same old deal wrapped in green velvet, the richest, most powerful of those among us will dominate localities to strip from them the resources everyone else needs to survive, just to satisfy their desires.
Environmentalism, and especially the communist idea of rationing power, turning to massively more inefficient systems, is nothing more than a Chinese plot. While China signs onto every international environmental accord, it obeys none of them. For more than a decade, those walking around Beijing have been wearing masks to try and mitigate the smog emergency there, but China has only accelerated their power production.
More for them and less for us as Carlin said?
Nothing new under the sun.
Love the meme about why does the electric bill never go down after switching bulbs and windmill/solar eyesores.
Another one says think of the AI five breasted woman photochops as you sit in the blackout.
Honk, honk.
Reading that one AI center will require more than the power production of the state of Pennsylvania by 2030.
Will the serf peasants even get a subscription for the you’ll own nothing and like it?
Property is theft, comrade. (honk)