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How much energy do data centers and artificial intelligence use? /// Less than 2% of global electricity, but demand is very geographically concentrated. (ourworldindata.org)
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[–] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

So using a more distributed Internet (instead of sticking all out services in data centers) would help balance that.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    that's just making more, smaller data centers. The data centers themselves are probably more efficient than an equivalent amount of compute that's spread out elsewhere, just because the cooling systems for data centers generally benefit from being huge.

    The problem is that we keep building more data centers for stupid shit.

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