This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
I wonder why countries let them.
Using up more electric power than there's available is NOT a simple matter of demand and supply.
If they actually pull too much from the grid, they are going to cause damage to others, and maybe even to the grid itself.
They finally reached crypto miner level awareness.
Weird metric, but ok.
I wonder if they made an error as simple as this in their projections. There’s no guarantee that AI interest continues to grow.
Sounds like some sensationalized bullshit. They don't give a single number or meaningful statement and they are paywalled.
I don't disagree that they should back up their claim, but it does intuitively make sense. AI - GPT LLMs in particular - are typically designed to push the limits of what modern hardware can provide - essentially eating whatever power you can throw at it.
Pair this with a huge AI boom and corporate hype cycle, and it wouldn't surprise me if it was consuming an incredible amount of power. It's reminiscent of Bitcoin, from a resource perspective.
