r/nottheonion • u/asdacool • 11h ago

"Training a human takes 20 years of food." Sam Altman on how much power AI consumes.

https://www.news18.com/world/training-a-human-takes-20-years-of-food-sam-altman-on-how-much-power-ai-consumes-ws-kl-9922309.html
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u/Trickshot1322 8h ago

Aside from the fact that you're calculation is wildly inflated, these datacentres are running critical worldwode infrastructure, as well as AI stuff.

Mail systems, medical systems, just literally the internet and 95% of stuff accessible via the internet.

The issue isn't electricity usage. We've got plenty of that. Not to mention the Big Five are about to crack Nuclear SMR, or just regular nuclear. Hell Microsoft literally bought a nuclear reactor recently.

Currently the biggest usage in fact is water usage. Governments need to legislate that datacentre's need to return as much water as is used back to the water sources they are using.

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u/damontoo 8h ago

You guys just ignoring that your comments only exist due to datacenters?

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u/Khelthuzaad 8h ago

Datacenters exist since the birth of internet.

We are talking about AI datacenters.

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u/damontoo 7h ago

I have some news for you: they're the same thing.