One thing about these numbers that's absolutely shocking to me is how low the energy use is:
> That model’s usage was well within our budget ($68, about 4kWh of energy use / 365 grams of carbon emissions).
The energy cost is literally 1% of the total cost. For context, 4kWh of energy would drive you about 15 miles in an EV, about half of the average person's daily driving miles. It's boiling 10 gallons of water.
With the talk of AI data centers' impact on the world, you'd think this would be 10x to 100x the amount of energy in order to get the effects they're using here.
My takeaway: the AI data center buildout is an overbuild probably at least as large as the fiber buildout that left us with so much dark fiber. If not even bigger. The only thing that will save the economy is the inability of NVIDIA and chip fabs to produce enough chips to match the buildout planned.
> With the talk of AI data centers' impact on the world, you'd think this would be 10x to 100x the amount of energy in order to get the effects they're using here.
This was going so well until this. Everything at scale has environmental impact because you centralize the downside and distribute the upside. This is an important alienation, but it hides the amount of heat, noise and impact on distribution that datacenters have on local infrastructure and environment.
He is a Marxist (the alienation rhetoric gives it away) he is primarily interested in causing social revolution not in environmentalism or anything else.
Labels are nice to fit what you don't understand in terms you feel like you understand. The local impact is real. Alienation is important. You are stuck in late 1800s rethoric.
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> That model’s usage was well within our budget ($68, about 4kWh of energy use / 365 grams of carbon emissions).
The energy cost is literally 1% of the total cost. For context, 4kWh of energy would drive you about 15 miles in an EV, about half of the average person's daily driving miles. It's boiling 10 gallons of water.
With the talk of AI data centers' impact on the world, you'd think this would be 10x to 100x the amount of energy in order to get the effects they're using here.
My takeaway: the AI data center buildout is an overbuild probably at least as large as the fiber buildout that left us with so much dark fiber. If not even bigger. The only thing that will save the economy is the inability of NVIDIA and chip fabs to produce enough chips to match the buildout planned.
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This was going so well until this. Everything at scale has environmental impact because you centralize the downside and distribute the upside. This is an important alienation, but it hides the amount of heat, noise and impact on distribution that datacenters have on local infrastructure and environment.
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Calculate the scale. Add it up. Do it.
Look at the numbers and come back to me.
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But if you must you can call me a moderately progressive Marxist.
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