Apparently only partially, but mostly a natural gas plant to even further wreck the planet.

There's hundreds of billions of dollars available to pour into this, and for what benefit to the nation? Meanwhile, the rest of the country's infrastructure is crumbling.

Interestingly, solar panels work more efficiently in cooler temperatures.

Another interesting question:

How much energy and resources would we save by simply slowing down Ai usage? A lot of the time people make unnecessary prompts or receive unhelpful generated text, and sure, it looks impressive, but most of the time you don't need it at all.

The majority of energy consumed is for training the AI models, not providing output from those models.

This means the resource consumption is not tied to usage and prompts. Also it means resource consumption to train models is temporary, relative to the model.

I mean from Microsoft's perspective it is working out...

Until someone goes all eco terrorism.

No they will just train more models. Do you ever pay attention?

The line must always go up. NO DOWN.

Yep most local governments will give tens of millions away for "local jobs" even if there's only like 3 local jobs.

Could literally just hand those 3 people 4 million each, and save the environmental disaster.

Literally dealing with that in my own local community. They want to build an outdoor concrete batch plant in the middle of downtown to create like 10 jobs. I mean you'll make the small city into a ghost town. Shut down the multi-million dollar observatory, all the small business down restaurants. Not to mention they will cause everyone wealthy enough to move out of town. This will leave the poorest residents left in the tax base but hey they're creating jobs!

At scale? None. If we assume that (a) the number of queries are constant (i.e. that the slow response doesn't drive away users) and (b) that the efficiency is the same whether it's fast or slow, then having computers that take longer to calculate each response just means you need to have more of them working in parallel to service the demand.

Now, for a home user running AI locally, you could maybe save some energy by using more efficient silicon since you only need it to process one query at a time (assuming lower-spec parts actually are more efficient, which may or may not be the case), but that's not really what we're talking about here.

That is how water use works, yes. The water goes back into the environment and is later reused.

Also, there's a good chance the AIs are not being trained in the same facilities that they're later being run in. Different sorts of work is being done.

I think I use AI more than most people here.

It's okay for simple stuff. But the amount of times it has given me blatantly wrong information or impressive looking solutions that are needlessly over complicated and broken is incredible.

It's not complicated when you factor in that tax payers are paying for the incentives. And they rarely work out for the local residents.

When Amazon was flirting with building their second headquarters for AWS, a small number of cities tried to band together and require a floor amount for reinvestment into the city. Amazon, being one of the richest companies in the world, said, "Nah...well just cancel the building."

These companies want to socialize the cost of their buildings but privatize the profits those buildings create.

I know politicians are spineless but the obvious solution seems to be to keep increasing the cost of using water until the data centers switched to a closed system. Don't most nuclear power plants recycle most of the water they use?

Charging the data centers more would also be a nice increase in revenue for the local municipal area

Was this concrete batch plant being built by one of the richest companies in the world?

If this was the case for literally every project, then every project would cause cities to lose money and I have no idea how cities could still exist.

elon is currrently using the aquifer drinking water under memphis to cool grok. he’s also powering it with generators and smogging out the city.

please do not use grok.

You could have already done all of this with the internet itself...I dont understand why people think they need llms. Hell, you could have done all of that just from books, no internet needed. I feel like people are as lazy as they've ever been.

Also, you totally trust everything you learned. Thats not smart, being that its literally a corporate owned propaganda machine thats purpose is only to sell you ads to make the rich richer. Why do you think they are putting billions into it? Its sure as FUCK not for betterment of humanity.

According to many suspicions and now also reported from an NSA agent that was involved in the investigations, Harris beat trump by a wide margin. The voting machines had been tampered with in order to fix the election, and that the machines used have more or less been vulnerable to this happening and likely has been happening for the last 15+ years, allegedly.

So we may not have voted for this. Not to mention the hard gerrymandering that has been happening for the past 20 years. (There's pretty much always been gerrymandering, though).

Back into the environment, yes.

Back into Arlen, Texas water supplies?... M a y b e?

You don't start limiting residential showers unless running the well dry is a possibility.