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[–] 4 points 4 days ago

I can recall when AI was first building momentum around 2022/2023 and a comparison was drawn with Bitcoin for power usage. Gemini alone used more power than all the Bitcoin mining combined. Mind you, Gemini was still pretty early on then, so imagine the escalation now!

Yet... "The grid can't sustain electric vehicles"...

It wouldn't need ai bass I'd it wasn't this inflated race against "best", and actual research was done, small enough scale that the race was for the most efficient model without the needs to destroy the compute market, water supplies, GPUs/gaming, ecosystems from clearing land, and running turbine jet engines 24/7 (39 of them for xAI) to generate power.

We're backwards! It used to be everything was built to be extremely efficient with what little resources were available. We built awesome computers in the 90s and early 00s for what they were.

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