Quixoticgeek on Nostr: The thing driving the need for the bigger more power and water hungry data centres is ...
The thing driving the need for the bigger more power and water hungry data centres is AI. Sparkling autocarrot. Where as a machine in a rack full of hard disks might consume a couple of hundred watts. A machine loaded up with a typical load of 8 "AI accelerators" can be pulling in the region of 5kw. Over an order of magnitude more power than the energy needed to store the lifes photos of hundreds of people.
And why ? To what end?
2/n
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2024-02-25 09:36:47Event JSON
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