[HN Gopher] As AI booms, land near nuclear power plants becomes ...
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As AI booms, land near nuclear power plants becomes hot real estate
Author : rntn
Score : 25 points
Date : 2024-03-25 21:01 UTC (1 hours ago)
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| p1esk wrote:
| So, is this a good investment opportunity, what do you all think?
| noman-land wrote:
| Yeah, do it.
| passwordoops wrote:
| I think the bubble is starting to pop. Insiders are taking
| profits (1), which is usually a good sign that the darlings
| will fall back to earth soon.
|
| (1)
| https://www.ft.com/content/3bcc3949-0bf6-4f41-bc46-57cbb0df3...
| pavel_lishin wrote:
| Oh yeah, you gotta keep the Basilisk at bay.
| reqo wrote:
| > The facilities will reportedly consume as much as 13 percent of
| the plant's output.
|
| Why are AI products being shipped so aggressively despite being
| so inefficient? Is code autocompletion and generating random
| images really worth so much electricity? Shouldn't we wait until
| the research has created an efficient architecture that is easily
| scalable first?
| tithe wrote:
| For the same reason HDD companies shipped 100, 200, 300... GB
| drives instead of jumping straight to 1 TB: there's money to be
| made in the middle.
| jjcm wrote:
| > Shouldn't we wait until research has created an efficient
| architecture that is easily scalable first?
|
| A scalable architecture has a prerequisite of known product
| requirements and known implementation specs. Neither is true
| right now as this field is evolving at a crazy rate. Approaches
| like what Groq has are great for increasing efficiency, but at
| the cost of flexibility. Early on in any technology flexibility
| is imperative until product/market fit is established more
| clearly.
|
| Also reducing this to autocompletion/generating random images
| really reduces what AI actually is. Those are two use cases for
| a very generalizable area.
| ajmurmann wrote:
| What a bizarre question. Me and many others are paying $20+ for
| these services. The electricity cost is already priced in and
| subscribers looks at the price and are fine with that price. If
| the price comes from dev costs, electricity, capital expenses
| etc. is irrelevant. There are really no alternatives either
| (well, I could go to 99Designs, pay $100 and wait days). People
| pay a lot for this and every day new use cases get discovered,
| so clearly more services like this get built.
|
| Edit: " Shouldn't we wait until the research has created an
| efficient architecture that is easily scalable first?"
|
| Who is "we"? If I think I can offer a product that uses AI and
| after paying API requests to OpenAI I can turn a profit, I'll
| build it. API requests will only get cheaper, but why should I
| wait for that if I can turn a profit now?
| TheDudeMan wrote:
| If you want to be last, sure.
| juitpykyk wrote:
| Imagine how much electricity will be needed to replace 1 billion
| jobs with AI in the next 5 years.
| ajmurmann wrote:
| Imagine the compensation for a job where the ceiling is "what
| would the electricity for AI cost to have AI do it?"
| seydor wrote:
| well if real estate investors are pumping the value of bare land,
| i will be stocking on popcorn to watch the bubble popping
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