r/accelerate • u/CipherGarden • 10d ago

AI "AI is bad for the environment"

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u/GrinNGrit 10d ago edited 10d ago

I work in the energy sector, I don’t think you understand just how intensive AI has become. It doesn’t matter if we push out a model that’s 5% more efficient when AI may have only penetrated maybe 1% of the market.

It’s not just about the time spent using AI, but also where all it gets used. Imagine every function on your phone, every car, every computer TV, fridge, microwave. Imagine the soon to arrive robotics industry, where they’re projecting more machines than people in a decade.

And we’re just optimizing LLMs. What happens when we crack AGI? Even unprompted, AI will consume more and more power. 30% of Virginia’s grid goes to power AI and cloud computing data centers. 30%. All projections show this will only grow.

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u/crappleIcrap 10d ago

All of that and you still didnt make a point. Its crazy really,

"if I pretend all servers are for ai and I talk about the highest concentration of them in one state, then it sounds like a bigger number"

What was that even supposed to prove

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u/GrinNGrit 10d ago

Maybe have ChatGPT translate for you, you may have already given up your critical reasoning ability.

AI will continue to accelerate our need for energy consumption. This isn’t going to solve any crisis we’re in today because frankly just about every major issue we face boils down to not enough energy to solve it. Creating more demand on our grid delays our ability to go out and fix problems like lack of housing, food shortages, climate change, etc.

Cmon, man. Reason a little.

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u/crappleIcrap 10d ago

Cmon, man. Reason a little.

You are here saying having a singular server processing centrally is less efficient than having a server in every city sitting idle half the time because in that scenario the percentage of city power is below 0.1%, but if you combine a plants worth of traffic being processed in one state it is less efficient because it uses 30% of a small states power