How The Massive Power Draw Of Generative AI Is Overtaxing Our Grid

Honestly this sounds like a more reasonable origin story for The Matrix than "We burned the atmosphere to block the sun"

This is why so many people are investing in home solar and battery backup systems and using the grid as a backup! Every year my energy bill goes up yet I use less energy, buy energy star rated appliances an run my home ac less despite record temperatures every year. Now that I have solar on my roof and multiple storage batteries in my garage I no longer rely on the grid and only use it as a backup.

Most people are not aware that AI applications require data centers and high energy. Companies investing in AI are likely to face more energy and grid problems.

So they want to get rid of gas engine vehicles to save the plant, while at the same time rolling out AI that is 5 to 10x worse than gas vehicles. Makes sense.

I am an EE, took a mechanical engineering class in the early 90s, was not too interested in it. But the professor was working on thermal chip cooling systems, from what I understand is common tech in laptops now. Your laptop chip heats a fluid in a sealed tube, then it boils off and cooled by a fan, turning it back to a liquid. It is taken for granted but without such a solution, a slim laptop would not exist. He pretty much stated without advances in thermodynamics and cooling, eventually all the EE tech will come to a dead halt. It is true.

Tom Ferguson you absolute chad 9:12 😂

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I dont understand why these companies cant invest the money on their own power which will make them profit. Why do regular people have to pay for that?

AI companies should be forced to build and only use solar power generation and storage. Atleast if AI fails, pple can use the renewable energy infrastructure they leave behind.

LLMs should all be behind paywalls, if you don't need it enough to pay for it then you shouldn't use it, that's the key thing, many people just don't wanna do google searches or whatever and instead ask chatgpt directly, that shouldn't be the case, we are turning a world that was already pretty hard to sustain with renewables into a much harder world to sustain with renewables

Hopefully they are adding solar panels to these facilities to help with power usage. No government subsidies either, they can afford it.

Report recently came out that said OpenAI is facing bankruptcy due to generative AI losses

A.I-Bitcoin-Ev Cars all draw crazy power.

this why so many people being charged more electricity. due to data centers energy usage.

At the 5:30 mark, there has to be a mistake, fusion energy from 2028? If true then this itself deserves a video.

While the mass adoption of AI has transformed digital life seemingly overnight, regulation of its very physical impacts has not kept pace.

The human brain uses about 10 to 20 Watts of power to function. Brain cells, like all cells, had to be energy efficient from day one. AI researchers don't consider things like energy usage or cost when designing their models.

I'll be darned! I had no idea. It makes sense. More processing results in more heating and more power usage which results in overtaxing the grid. Never heard of water cooling of computing components before either. I learned something new today. So AI is the new "gas guzzler". Maybe we should stop using it for the sake of our planet and think for ourselves instead of making a computer do so.

I don’t understand why any energy hungry building with a large unobstructed roof isn’t covered in solar.

These data centers are already considering switching to SMR's (small modular nuclear reactors) to supply their energy needs because the cost per kilowatt is much cheaper when you factor in the overall costs versus the power output.