Comment on In a first, Google has released data on how much energy an AI prompt uses

• null@lemmy.nullspace.lol ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  No you’re right, they built the first one, all the demand that could ever be needed is covered by it, and there’s no reason to ever build any more.

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  • Maaji@lemmynsfw.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yet they’ve never needed to commission power plants to dedicate power to these facilities. It’s almost like there’s some new, uniquely power-hungry demand that’s driving this that’s sprung up in the last 5 or so years…

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    • null@lemmy.nullspace.lol ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yet they’ve never needed to commission power plants to dedicate power to these facilities.

      Never?

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    • lime@feddit.nu ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      huh? every data center i’ve been to has hundreds of megawatts of stand-by power generation which is regularly used to take up slack, because data center loads are peaky as hell. when facebook was building their first european datacenter in 2012 they were heavily criticised for their planned local power infrastructure, which was and still is diesel generators. the one being built in my area, which is a colo, has planned for over 700MW of local generation despite being built next to multiple hydro dams.

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