The staggering electricity demand needed to power next-generation technology is forcing the US to rely on yesterday’s fuel source: coal. Retirement dates for the country’s ageing fleet of coal-fired power plants are being pushed back as concerns over grid reliability and expectations of soaring electricity demand force operators to keep capacity online.
US slows plans to retire coal-fired plants as power demand from AI surges, Amanda Chu, The Financial Times, 2024 https://www.ft.com/content/ddaac44b-e245-4c8a-bf68-c773cc8f4e63
Ah, Brad, Brad, pull the other one, fella. Maybe for once in your life could you be honest? It's the good AI will do your stock price. That's all you care about.
"ChatGPT consumes a lot of energy in the process, up to 25 times more than a Google search. Additionally, a lot of water is also used in cooling for the servers that run all that software. Per conversation of about 20 to 50 queries, half a litre of water evaporates – a small bottle, in other words."
AI is predicted to consume twice as much energy as the whole of France by 2030
Training GPT3, took 1,287 MWh (Megawatt hours) of electricity.
"What is needed and what are the basics? Who will decide? 🫣"
That's the real crux of it. I read and agree in part with many of Mr. McGovern's posts and boosts, but I disagree about AIs utility. Were I choosing, many other things would get cut before AI. Who chooses?
But many (most, really) of the individuals In the machines that comprise those corporations are also concerned, environmentally-minded, socially conscious people. I don't want to count them out. I feel as though we are at a time of reckoning with capitalism's ethical failures that would occur even without the urgent pressure of the climatic doom we've sown. Wishful thinking maybe.
Jake Tapper is in his comfort zone interviewing Republican Israeli war hawks. He confuses that with being a friend to Israel. I am so tired of him. I’ve been tired of him since the 1990s. It astonishes me when people confuse him with a good journalist.
Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar is not my favourite RPG, but it’s probably one of the most memorable.
Before Ultima IV, every RPG I played was basically, “Here’s a bad guy, go kill him.” But in Ultima IV, you can do terrible, amoral things. And not only that, you’d get immediate gratification from it – only to realize much later in the game that doing terrible, amoral things was ultimately not worth it.
This is definitely a DOS game that I often re-visit.
To choose #Trump over #Biden due to age (or really, anything) would be folly.
But to think Biden's age is a political weakness is an honest opinion. He shouldn't have run. People want a younger president not simply from a mental and physical perspective, but from a perspective of generational zeitgeist.
The Dems have my vote. I hope next time they try to get my enthusiasm, too.