alt Hacker NewsSomeone will likely come up with some clever way to make AI use less electricity.
There's probably something in how you design the models or chips or some other thing that will be figured out over the next 5 - 10 years to make these use dramatically less electricity.
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asdfman123 • yesterday at 8:24 PM
True, but maybe they can use 50% less power or something. Maybe 90% if we're really lucky.
But the growth in the scope and usage of AI is poised to grow exponentially, assuming this isn't a bubble.
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Without pressure, the release valves will never be invented. Electricity, datacenter, and DRAM demand outstripping supply sounds like an opportunity - if we can only find a way to divert funding from the current gpu/ai funnel. Maybe jack up corporate tax rates like the 1970s, then every corporate office park will have a research lab :).