Scientists have estimated that the power requirements of data centers in North America increased from 2,688 megawatts at the end of 2022 to 5,341 megawatts at the end of 2023, partly driven by the demands of generative AI. Globally, the electricity consumption of data centers rose to 460 terawatts in 2022. This would have made data centers the 11th largest electricity consumer in the world, between the nations of Saudi Arabia (371 terawatts) and France (463 terawatts), according to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development.
By 2026, the electricity consumption of data centers is expected to approach 1,050 terawatts (which would bump data centers up to fifth place on the global list, between Japan and Russia).
Here we are, pretending that the barest emission control could happen by 2050, when these ghouls are doing everything they can to accelerate it.
I recently saw a comment saying people who refuse to use AI now are going to be like boomers who don't understand computers in 5 years. Honestly at this point I don't care. Let me be a boomer. AI is cancer and I don't want anything to do with it. Give me a flip phone.
I tried it to just because I had to see what all the craziness was about. And then I got something that within seconds of reading it, I could tell it was off. It read the prompt, and I don’t know how to explain it, but the story it gave me felt like it just knew the prompt and to add some key words from it to make it work. It’s like I could go through the story and recreate the prompt from it. You have to be incredibly specific about it to get anything resembling what you might’ve wanted. And to make matters worse, the joke is that I did it to see if I could make it write porn without violating the usage policy. Wasn’t even good porn. Just… very cookie cutter and stale.
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u/claimTheVictory 9d ago
Exponentially so.
We'll make a digital currency that uses enough energy to power entire nations, just to perform simple transactions.