News AI GPU bottleneck has eased, but now power will constrain AI growth warns Zuckerberg

[Admin]

Energy constraints are set to become the IT industry’s next bottleneck, reasons Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg in a recent interview.

AI GPU bottleneck has eased, but now power will constrain AI growth warns Zuckerberg : Read more

 

[Findecanor]

Has it not occurred to these techbros that we are living in a climate emergency?!

We have to conserve energy. The energy we get from renewable resources must go to our actual needs, not to commercial moonshots.
The transition process of replacing fossil fuels with renewable energy is still not going fast enough to avoid the 2°C target — which is the threshold from emergency to catastrophe.

 

[hotaru251]

Has it not occurred to these techbros that we are living in a climate emergency?!

they don't care.

Only thing those in charge of the business care about is $$$.

They will dead before the climate issues get too bad to survive in.

 

[natesnowflake]

Sam Altman doesn't just work at OpenAI; he also founded Oklo, an advanced nuclear reactor company designed to provide more modular construction and more advanced technology.

Oklo just went public and shares cratered post-IPO, but with no apparent lock-up period, that's to be expected. SMR (NuScale) is another that has been trading for a while. There's also the Natrium being contructed (founded by Bill Gates) in Kettering, WY that just broke ground.

The recycling of solar and wind panels after their usable lives poses challenges. Sufficient raw copper for expansive arrays may not be readily available. We actually have much more experience with nuclear and what can go wrong than we do with solar and wind. We have no experience with grid-scale batteries.

Congress is also actively involved in reviving the domestic nuclear fuel industry. Right now, we're highly dependent on imports just for the existing LWR fleet.

So, it's not just Zuck who sees this problem, and both Gates and Altman think the obvious solution is atomic energy. It's one of the least dangerous forms of energy - even wind kills more people per year on average.

Wind and solar will have a huge role to play, but the bedrock of our future has to be laid with U-235 and Th-239.

 

[Notton]

Ah, it's not a Sunday unless a billionaire scourge of a human tells us how to make them richer by pillaging our planet more.

 

[Pierce2623]

Can’t we just limit business energy consumption instead of building tons of new power plants? In the long term, AI is just going to make jobs disappear anyways.