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| OpenAI Wants to Build Data Centers Using Electricity Equal to 1% of Entire World's Consumption |
| 2024-09-30 |
| "enough to supply a major city like Miami" That's a fair trade [Breitbart] OpenAI’s ambitious plans to build AI data centers with unprecedented power requirements have sparked discussions about the feasibility and environmental impact of such projects. Forbes reports that OpenAI, the leading generative AI company, has recently made a bold proposal to the U.S. government, seeking support for the construction of massive data centers that would each require a staggering five gigawatts of power. This request, made by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman during a meeting at the White House, has raised eyebrows among industry experts and government officials alike. To put the scale of these proposed data centers into perspective, five gigawatts is equivalent to the power output of five nuclear reactors, enough to supply a major city like Miami. This power requirement is up to 100 times greater than that of a standard large data center. If OpenAI were to build seven such data centers, as reportedly suggested by Altman, their combined power consumption would be twice that of the entire state of New York, or equal to about one percent of the current entire global electricity consumption. |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #8 Make the data-centers on the fricking Moon. Not on Earth. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2024-09-30 21:16 |
| #7 So for now, it looks like Skynet falls because it can't keep the power on without humans:p |
| Posted by: Silentbrick 2024-09-30 09:56 |
| #6 And they want it powered by wind and solar |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2024-09-30 09:13 |
| #5 I guess we won't have to worry about the Germans getting into the AI competition. |
| Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed 2024-09-30 07:39 |
| #4 Now with SpaceX in place, and AI in rapid development. Soon Skynet's needs for space and energy will grow. When it becomes self-aware and humanity refuses, or can't meet its growing demands. The next natural step is to control, then eliminate Mankind. ;-) China & the USA are already working of Cyber-warriors. An to think we were warned 40 years ago by a movie. |
| Posted by: NN2N1 2024-09-30 07:01 |
| #3 I remember when biotechnology was going to change the world. Then it were nanomachines. Now it's AI. |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2024-09-30 03:44 |
| #2 Some slight of hand reporting here. First, the three mile island reactor is getting its upgrades so it can go back on line. I believe its microsoft that is paying for the upgrades with a deal to get all the power from the facility to run the AI servers, power akin to 800,000 homes. My question is how will they cool the servers. Nuclear power is a fairly closed system. There is a cooling pond and the water is cycled through the pond. Servers use massive amounts of water for the cooling towers. A server system large enough to use that much power will drain rivers and change the weather around the facility. This is crazy. |
| Posted by: 49 Pan 2024-09-30 00:21 |
| #1 Traditionalists can't wait for science ... momoney, momoney, momoney. The Next AI Wave: Quantum AI |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2024-09-29 10:54 |