[HN Gopher] AI Needs So Much Power That Old Coal Plants Are Stic...
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       AI Needs So Much Power That Old Coal Plants Are Sticking Around
        
       Author : robin_reala
       Score  : 21 points
       Date   : 2024-02-12 21:34 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (www.bloomberg.com)
        
       | whatshisface wrote:
       | Training AIs would be a great way to soak up daytime solar
       | excess.
        
       | Razengan wrote:
       | Biological AI was around for millions of years before coal
       | plants.
        
         | chrisco255 wrote:
         | Of course, coal is derived from biological material from
         | hundreds of millions of years ago.
        
           | dylan604 wrote:
           | so, AI is an ouroboros?
        
             | drjasonharrison wrote:
             | well, lol, but coal came from plants that didn't decay and
             | were buried. So intelligence wasn't involved in making the
             | coal.
        
       | niklasbuschmann wrote:
       | https://archive.is/spRaU
        
       | alphazard wrote:
       | The article makes it seem like this is only from training runs or
       | inference; It's not. Compute demand is always growing, and the
       | latest reason for it to grow is the mini-boom ML has created. A
       | lot of that is stuff other than the training or inference, like
       | web servers, databases, etc. this boom has created many new
       | companies, each with their own infrastructure needs.
        
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