Hi. I’m in charge of an IT company that is been contracted to carry out one of these data centers somewhat unwillingly in our city. We are currently in the groundbreaking phase but I am looking at papers and power requirements. You are absolutely wrong on the power requirements unless you mean per query on a light load on an easy plan, but these will be handling millions if not billions of queries per day. Keeping in mind that a single user query can also be dozens, hundreds, or thousands of separate queries… Generating a single image is dramatically more than you are stating.
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Honytawk@lemmy.zip 8 hours agoAI uses 1/1000 the power of a microwave.
Are you really sure you aren’t the one being fed lies by con men?
AceTKen@lemmy.ca 6 hours ago
jimjam5@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
What? Elon Musk’s xAI data center in Tennessee (when fully expanded & operational) will need 2 GW of energy.