LessBadProblems.bsky.social: The fact that OpenAI is negotiating with fusion company Helion, another Altman investment, for nonexistent power should be raising red flags.

“Ability to find power right now will determine the winners and losers in the AI arms race. It has left us with a map bleeding with places where the retirement of fossil plants are being delayed.”

AI is exhausting the power grid. Tech firms are seeking a miracle solution.www.washingtonpost.com Some data centers need as much energy as a small city, turning companies that promised a clean energy future into some of the most insatiable guzzlers of power

This is a very good piece, and I think lots of people should read it! Buuuut let's just put this out there as plainly as we can: if you are resorting to trying to make *fusion!!* happen to power your newest products, you are absolutely going to fail and should admit as much.

Fusion, as a technological concept wrt our energy consumption, is something that we understand pretty damn well. We know the contexts in which it can and likely eventually *will* be used to power humanity, but we also know enough about it to say very confidently that it's still a century-plus away.

The fact that OpenAI is negotiating with fusion company Helion, another Altman investment, for nonexistent power should be raising red flags.

Yeah, I was just reading about this a few days ago. Altman in particular is playing with fire. I'm not sure how keen on all this regulators are going to be once they start reviewing all of these sham startups he's gotten himself and OpenAI mixed up with.

guessing they count on deregulation being just around corner🫠

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