Nearly half of AI data centers may not have enough power by 2027 : futurology

[–] ceiphas@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Have we tried switching them off?

[–] DmMacniel@feddit.org 3 points 1 year ago

That would be too reasonable.

[–] 01189998819991197253 13 points 1 year ago

True title: citizens in whole countries are without power, AI data centers must stay online

[+] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

What they'll do is they'll ask for subsidies to build power plants, privatise them, sell the power at increasingly extortionate rates and cut maintenance costs to increase their margins and profits.

Possibly.

[–] reksas@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

then buy out the competition and have monopoly paid by people its going to extort

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's effectively why Microsoft's plan to restart Three Mile Island is stalled out. They want it to be paid by taxpayer dollars despite (as far as I know) having no plans to provide the generated electricity to taxpayers.

[–] BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 2 points 1 year ago

That's roughly what I had in mind when I wrote that comment indeed...

[–] Iampossiblyatwork@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Good.

[–] simon@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is it because the training/use needs to happen within a single datacenter? Or are they saying that there are not enough data center capacity in total in the world to meet the demand?

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