Is there anyway to make it use less at it gets more advanced or will there be huge power plants just dedicated to AI all over the world soon?
Is there anyway to make it use less at it gets more advanced or will there be huge power plants just dedicated to AI all over the world soon?
It takes time to build a power plant. A more realistic scenario is that we’ll continue as we have: AI centers will be built wherever local governments approve them for the taxes, without regard for the strain they put on the aging electrical grid and, given the massive amount of electricity they need, everyone’s electrical bill will just massively increase.
They’ve been building a large number of data centers and AI centers in Virginia, and it’s been straining and raising prices across the entire PJM interconnector region, to the point where at least a couple states are considering leaving it. Microsoft has bought the rights to and is reactivating part of the Three Mile Island nuclear plant, because they wanted dedicated power, and they’re still going to be pulling power from the grid.
Also water, they consume heaps of fresh water which is used for important meat bag things like, oh I don’t know, eating and drinking perhaps.
No one is really challenging them on this, but water scarcity is going to be a big deal as climate change worsens.
Cook the planet and take all the water.
And growing plants that we eat.
Isn’t water mainly used for cooling? I think you can still drink that water, unless they pump it full of chemicals.
the current cooling paradigm is to basically spray mist into the air inlets of a data center to make the air able to carry more heat. the hot, moist air is then vented to atmosphere. so the water is lost until it rains again.
So… the water is never lost.
Water is never lost.
The problem is getting, filtering, and purifying the water so it can be used again.
sure, just like how water is not lost when you take a piss in the woods. it’s just not reusable without significant energy expenditure.