Bloomberg: New AI data centers are coming online so fast that the electricity demand is straining global power grids and threatening clean energy goals. Read The Big Take ⬇️

New AI data centers are coming online so fast that the electricity demand is straining global power grids and threatening clean energy goals. Read The Big Take ⬇️

AI Is Wreaking Havoc on Global Power Systemswww.bloomberg.com New artificial intelligence data centers are coming online so fast that the electricity demand is straining global power grids and threatening clean energy goals.

Well, thats some ad placement

Well, the only solution is to ban the datacentres from getting power from the grid. They'll just have to build their own fusion reactors. I'm sure the algoritms can design those in mere minutes...

This not too far off from what big tech is saying “leave it to AI to solve problems AI creates”

Except, they have no interest in solving problems.

we do not need, and should not have, this technology

Any% speedrun towards making the world uninhabitable for short term gains built on promises that can't be fulfilled anyway. Good shit. Gotta love it.

Ive been getting along just fine with my brain and i see no actual useful reason for it to exist beyond making the rich fatter.

now new areas can be wasted in new ways they could not be before

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The world's on fire, we're being told to roast to death to save electricity, but our overlords are just pissing away gobs of power on their new pet project that offers nothing to humanity. Why? Because they want to cripple worker power via automation and they'll risk destroying everything to do so.

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These guys just don’t care about anything

Well, in that case we could always stop them coming online. No point in having shiny, fancy AI if everyone is drowning in floods or dying of heatstroke.

Oh we're not poisoning the earth enough? We gotta step out up

feel certain Texas power grid is not ready for this

This gave me a good laugh 👍

we can either laugh or cry

wait until you find out about all 100s of nonrenewable resources—stolen and/or extracted by exploited labour—and its ecological cost, locked into the staggering amount of sophisticated electronics needed for those junk toys. you should look into that. you're journalists, right?

This seems like a problem with a very obvious solution

Yet my electric company just asked me to make it 85 in my house during a heatwave because obviously me not being miserable is the problem

Sure, go ahead and cook the planet for hallucinations.

Ah yes, we should save energy. So the capitalists could milk power plants dry. Ban Gen AI, this is urgent

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We get the Butlerian Jihad not because humanity grows indolent or the thinking machines established a dictatorship but because they wasted too many resources on stupid shit like LLMs.

This is infuriating and sickening. I'm getting *garbage* results from "AI" search, b.s. marketing "AI" updates to businesses that don't need it, and it's gonna cook the earth with CO2 emissions? W. T. F. 😵‍💫

Can we not just throw SamA into a volcano and not fuck the planet instead ‽

A story on how much power is going to mining crypto and AI would be eye opening - but would any MSM do anything to anger tech bros?

i mean, we were doing soooooo good. Renewables, EVs, recycling, etc. And then 🤷 THIS. 🙄🤦‍♀️

Tech bros make everything perfect. 😬😬😬

they'd kill all of us for 2% higher profits or to inflate their latest bubble

CC y

How can something suck up so many resources without even creating something remotely good in the process?

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Fuck this.

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