What? Elon Musk’s xAI data center in Tennessee (when fully expanded & operational) will need 2 GW of energy.
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Honytawk@lemmy.zip 1 month agoAI uses 1/1000 the power of a microwave.
Are you really sure you aren’t the one being fed lies by con men?
jimjam5@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Rockstar games: 6k employees 20 kwatt hours per square foot esource.bizenergyadvisor.com/…/large-offices 150 square feet per employee unspot.com/…/how-much-office-space-do-we-need-per…
18,000,000,000 watt hours
vs
10,000,000,000 watt hours for ChatGPT training
washington.edu/…/how-much-energy-does-chatgpt-use…
Yet there’s no hand wringing over the environmental destruction caused by 3d gaming.
Glitterkoe@lemmy.world 1 month ago
And then you have a trained model that requires vast amounts of energy per request, right? It doesn’t stop at training.
You need obscene amounts GPU power to run the ‘better’ models within reasonable response times.
In comparison, I could game on my modest rig just fine, but I can’t run a 22B model locally in any useful capacity while programming.
Sure, you could argue gaming is a waste of energy, but that doesn’t mean we can’t argue that it shouldn’t have to cost boiling a shitload of eggs to ask AI how long a single one should. Or each time I start typing a line of code for that matter.
jimjam5@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Semi non sequitur argument aside, your math seems to be off.
I double checked my quick phone calculations and using figures provided, Rockstar games with their office space energy use is roughly 18,000,000 (18 million) kWh, not 18,000,000,000 (18 billion).
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I put the final answer in Watt hours, not Kw hours to match. ChatGPT used 10B watt hours, not 10B Kwatt hours.
AceTKen@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Hi. I’m in charge of an IT company that is been contracted to carry out one of these data centers somewhat unwillingly in our city. We are currently in the groundbreaking phase but I am looking at papers and power requirements. You are absolutely wrong on the power requirements unless you mean per query on a light load on an easy plan, but these will be handling millions if not billions of queries per day. Keeping in mind that a single user query can also be dozens, hundreds, or thousands of separate queries… Generating a single image is dramatically more than you are stating.