The negotiations were revealed by a Wall Street Journal report, which claims any deal would provide “vast quantities” of power to OpenAI for operating datacenters of machine-learning work.
Google will drop €1 billion to expand its data center in Finland…It includes plans to reuse heat from the data center to warm nearby homes, schools, and public buildings.
Artificial intelligence’s thirst for electricity is conspiring with other factors to trigger a sharp spike in electricity demand that the U.S. is only beginning to address.
The recent spike of interest in AI thanks to large language models (LLMs) and generative AI is pushing adoption of the tech by a wide variety of applications, leading to worries the processing needed for this will cause a surge in datacenter electricity consumption.
Large-scale compute is also environmentally unsustainable: chips are highly toxic to produce and require an enormous amount of energy to manufacture: for example, TSMC on its own accounts for 4.8 percent of Taiwan’s national energy consumption, more than the entire capital city of Taipei. Running data centers is likewise environmentally very costly: estimates equate every prompt run on ChatGPT to the equivalent of pouring out an entire bottle of water.
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