The grid really can’t handle AI data centers. Elon’s monster in Georgia is surrounded by turbine generators. A bunch of these new builds need power capacity added to work.
When that bubble pops, it will be the funniest, saddest and stupidest economic crisis we’ve ever had.
I’m convinced it’s intentional because the ultra rich have figured out that we have gotten so close to an Economic Singularity that they are burning money in any way possible so that they don’t lose the power they have currently, and would lose the moment that an Economic Singularity actually takes place.
They aren’t just burning the world to cause climate change to kill the poors, they are, in fact, burning the planet to desperately pull up a ladder, that isn’t a ladder, and is a floor, to prevent it from materializing. They’re trying to kill the rest of us, before we all have the exact same buying power they have, or at least close enough that the difference is academic.
Economic Singularity what is it?
Elon Musk multiplies with himself.
The net worth of Musk² would be a singularity of all the money in the world.
Same as a Technological Singularity, except with money. We basically produce an infinite money glitch.
Those “it just offset the emissions to the powerplant” folks is probably eating their own word now.
“it just offset the emissions to the powerplant”
which is, of course, actually better than tailpipe emissions all over town.
Why? Just because the grid is more renewable than ever or something to do with datacenters?
A few years back there’s a huge pushback against EV because they’re saying the tailpipe emissions is only outsourced to the coal/gas plant, so no point doing that for cleaner air. Now datacenter is using more power than people can imagine, raking up the emission even more than EV. Now you have tailpipe emissions AND the emissions from the excessive power usage of slopcenter.
The Texas grid can’t handle winter and Texas summers. But sure, let’s throw in 50 massive data centers
Honestly that realization is the most infuriating part of this saga.
If that’s still true we have already lost the Ai race with china
We already lost it. That’s why the IPO ing now. Try kimi, glm models - no difference from opus
People really said that electric vehicles were too much strain on the grid? All I ever heard em say was that they’re pointless.
Think it depends where you live. Here in Alberta after having switched fully to electric every single human (not a exaggeration) has told me we can’t all switch cause the grid can’t handle it. Not sure why they continue to keep telling me that cause I really don’t care if people switch or not, I just wanted to switch to become more sustainable for retirement.
This 20-year-old meme of a 40-year-old advertisement is getting somewhat tiresome.
Death is my only release
It’s not the same.
Datacenters are rather few single points of massive consumption. Charging hundred million cars requires millions of points of high consumption.
The grid to charge an enormous fleet of EV really is more difficult and expensive to build than supplying a few dozen data centres. On top the EVs need charging in urban environment, while data centres are located in industrial environment. It is easier to lay a few massive cables from a nuclear power plant to a datacenter, than to lay millions of kilometres of mediumthick cables to every neighborhood in a country.
I’m not justifying the enormous energy usage of data centres, but this is a bit like comparing apples with oranges.
