OpenAI reportedly wants to build ‘five to seven’ 5 gigawatt data centers — ‘You’re talking about more than 1% of global electricity consumption for just those datacenters alone’
https://fortune.com/2024/09/27/openai-5gw-data-centers-altman-power-requirements-nuclear/
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Excerpts from [article](https://fortune.com/2024/09/27/openai-5gw-data-centers-altman-power-requirements-nuclear/) by David Meyer:
*[…] Bloomberg and the New York Times have provided more details about what OpenAI in particular is trying to get from the government: support in its quest to build data centers with power requirements of 5 gigawatts each.*
*Five gigawatts is an astonishingly large amount of power. It’s the output of around five nuclear reactors—the kind of power you need for a whole major city like Miami.*
*It’s as much as 100 times the requirements of a standard large data center. The Times reported that OpenAI’s 5GW proposal drew laughter from a Japanese official.*
*Constellation Energy CEO Joe Dominguez told Bloomberg that he had heard Altman wanted five to seven such data centers.*
*According to Alex De Vries, the founder of tech energy research company Digiconomist, seven 5GW units would have “twice the power consumption of New York State combined.”*
*“It’s an extreme amount and, from a global electricity perspective, at that point you’re talking about more than 1% of global electricity consumption for just those datacenters alone,” he said. […]*
What a fucking waste.
Did people assume that we would not need more power as we progress?
Time to invest in solar panel companies then… cuz you better be powering all that with renewables, right!?
Buy utility stocks, they have been going up as a response to all this AI demand for electricity.
there shoud be some fucking law that if ypur business doesn t solve at least 1 problem more than it generates You gotta fuck right off
Don’t forget, these are the same people who want you to use paper straws, eat meat or travel by plane… Because environment
As long as it’s powered by renewables then who gives a fuck.
Build your own energy infra then, and make sure it doesn’t use any water or belch out CO2. If you can’t do that, what you’re asking for is subsidies to the tune of 30 nuclear power plants.
All that to shit out work of questionable validity with made up sources!
All so some weirdo can make a post on here of a voice assistant moaning. I hate this reality.
except for the mechanical power to make fan turns, everything is converted to heat
Easy we can just use all the people who lose their jobs to AI as batteries!
(Yeah I know..)
The new bitcoin mining datacenters.
That kinda power could power the flux capacitor at least 20 times
For context, a time-traveling DeLorean requires 1.21 gigawatts.
https://youtu.be/BDuZqYeNiOA?si=kEfSxjtXQXF2YzWK
Thats perfectly fine if they do it somewhere that they can power it with solar panels or the like.
Weren’t we supposed to have quantum or optical computing by now? I was promised technology that uses orders of magnitude less energy and space. Why are we allocating resources to building these mega centers instead?
No. Fix the planet first
So all jokes and movie jokes aside – 1.51 gigawatts really is THAT much? Doc wasn’t exaggerating?
And how much energy does of bolt of lightning really have?
5 gigawatts! All we need is a little plutonium.
This will come to a head sooner than later, but if humans want to advance or continue developing AI into AGI we’ll need to solve this energy problem.
The anti-science and anti-climate change numbskulls will hop right on board once they realize there is money in providing vast amounts of energy to support AI and other tech explanation. Suddenly “green” energy or moving past fossil fuels will be a-okay.
this is fucking wasteful.
Reddit is starting to sound like a bunch of luddites
build some solar power plants instead
Too bad they can’t build something that runs on Cheetos and Pepsi like the human brain does.
Media should stop saying “OpenAI wants/says/does” and start saying “Altman and his friends”, as OpenAI employees are starting to get offended for being associated with specific messages and claims
If I’m not mistaken America already has a few data centers that need more power then some countries
Great, after AI replaces my job, my electric bill will triple. Genius.
Good, now that the super rich are starting to suffer an energy crisis maybe now it will finally be addressed.
This is why I don’t care about buying an EV.