Yesterday, 05:12 PM
Data centre power consumption is just about a rounding error
You want to combat global warming? That’ll need the electrification of thermochemical processes. Cases in point: ammonia and iron.
A modest sized integrated green steel plant will consume over 2GW of power at a steady clip. For a data centre, that’s an enormous size.
And China produces over a billion tonnes of steel.
To the point about AI inference: it is possible that we never get there.
The universe we live in is actually a giant computation engine, said the mice of Douglas Adams.
To calculate everything in the universe, which we must do, requires an engine bigger than the universe.
That’s why we need more data centres
And Musk and Trump and Bezos have done more for humanity than a million Jesuses
You want to combat global warming? That’ll need the electrification of thermochemical processes. Cases in point: ammonia and iron.
A modest sized integrated green steel plant will consume over 2GW of power at a steady clip. For a data centre, that’s an enormous size.
And China produces over a billion tonnes of steel.
To the point about AI inference: it is possible that we never get there.
The universe we live in is actually a giant computation engine, said the mice of Douglas Adams.
To calculate everything in the universe, which we must do, requires an engine bigger than the universe.
That’s why we need more data centres
And Musk and Trump and Bezos have done more for humanity than a million Jesuses