Use of data-intensive technologies – in particular artificial intelligence (AI) data centres – is growing faster than electricity infrastructure can handle, the UN’s economic commission for Europe has warned, raising concerns about the future reliability and resilience of energy systems worldwide.

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[–] 7 points 1 month ago

Sorry, I thought it was the electric cars that the grid couldn't handle.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago

    Then stop allowing them to be built ffs!!

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    BREAKING NEWS Man hits own head with hammer

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    Even if there would exist something like agi, would they stop there? They'll throw anything into the fire until nothing is left, just to call it 1.0

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    Electricity Grid and Diesel supply for generators threatens Ai Datacentres.

    And if they don’t they should!

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    [–] 19 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Remember when conservatives were spreading propaganda against EVs that there was no way our grid could support them? I remember.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago

    Just last week Altman was saying that a single trip to the market consumes the same energy as like 500 prompts. A fairer comparison would be against tokens, as some people do text prompts while others are generating code, images, or video.

    If it was that cheap the subscription would be in the range of a streaming service.

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