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    Berichten zufolge will OpenAI „fünf bis sieben“ 5-Gigawatt-Rechenzentren bauen – „Sie sprechen von mehr als 1 % des weltweiten Stromverbrauchs allein für diese Rechenzentren.“


    Berichten zufolge will OpenAI „fünf bis sieben“ 5-Gigawatt-Rechenzentren bauen – „Sie sprechen von mehr als 1 % des weltweiten Stromverbrauchs allein für diese Rechenzentren.“

    https://fortune.com/2024/09/27/openai-5gw-data-centers-altman-power-requirements-nuclear/

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    1. marketrent on

      Excerpts from [article](https://fortune.com/2024/09/27/openai-5gw-data-centers-altman-power-requirements-nuclear/) by David Meyer:

      *[…] Bloomberg and the New York Times have provided more details about what OpenAI in particular is trying to get from the government: support in its quest to build data centers with power requirements of 5 gigawatts each.*

      *Five gigawatts is an astonishingly large amount of power. It’s the output of around five nuclear reactors—the kind of power you need for a whole major city like Miami.*

      *It’s as much as 100 times the requirements of a standard large data center. The Times reported that OpenAI’s 5GW proposal drew laughter from a Japanese official.*

      *Constellation Energy CEO Joe Dominguez told Bloomberg that he had heard Altman wanted five to seven such data centers.*

      *According to Alex De Vries, the founder of tech energy research company Digiconomist, seven 5GW units would have “twice the power consumption of New York State combined.”*

      *“It’s an extreme amount and, from a global electricity perspective, at that point you’re talking about more than 1% of global electricity consumption for just those datacenters alone,” he said. […]*

    3. Possible_Jump_1869 on

      Did people assume that we would not need more power as we progress?

    4. nndscrptuser on

      Time to invest in solar panel companies then… cuz you better be powering all that with renewables, right!?

    5. blingmaster009 on

      Buy utility stocks, they have been going up as a response to all this AI demand for electricity.

    6. Lofteed on

      there shoud be some fucking law that if ypur business doesn t solve at least 1 problem more than it generates You gotta fuck right off

    7. ConfidentMongoose on

      Don’t forget, these are the same people who want you to use paper straws, eat meat or travel by plane… Because environment

    8. Tenocticatl on

      Build your own energy infra then, and make sure it doesn’t use any water or belch out CO2. If you can’t do that, what you’re asking for is subsidies to the tune of 30 nuclear power plants.

    9. adhominablesnowman on

      All that to shit out work of questionable validity with made up sources!

    10. handsoffmydata on

      All so some weirdo can make a post on here of a voice assistant moaning. I hate this reality.

    11. vilette on

      except for the mechanical power to make fan turns, everything is converted to heat

    12. culexus1 on

      Easy we can just use all the people who lose their jobs to AI as batteries!

      (Yeah I know..)

    14. Bendeutsch on

      That kinda power could power the flux capacitor at least 20 times

    15. Dependent_Survey_546 on

      Thats perfectly fine if they do it somewhere that they can power it with solar panels or the like.

    17. impreprex on

      So all jokes and movie jokes aside – 1.51 gigawatts really is THAT much? Doc wasn’t exaggerating?

      And how much energy does of bolt of lightning really have?

    21. gimmeslack12 on

      Too bad they can’t build something that runs on Cheetos and Pepsi like the human brain does.

    22. bgighjigftuik on

      Media should stop saying “OpenAI wants/says/does” and start saying “Altman and his friends”, as OpenAI employees are starting to get offended for being associated with specific messages and claims

    23. Its_Helios on

      If I’m not mistaken America already has a few data centers that need more power then some countries

    24. TX_spacegeek on

      Great, after AI replaces my job, my electric bill will triple. Genius.

    25. Fouxs on

      Good, now that the super rich are starting to suffer an energy crisis maybe now it will finally be addressed.

    26. atomicrmw on

      Fuck Sam Altman. OpenAI had a chance to get rid of this schmuck, but the OpenAI team apparently fought to keep him. Made me realize the researchers there aren’t actually all that bright.

    27. iamtayareyoutaytoo on

      What is this for, again? Remind me.

      Porn? This is for porn?

    28. DumbestBoy on

      What problem do they think they’re going to solve with AI? Why is any of this *necessary*? I feel like it isn’t.

    29. kawag on

      First it’s AI projects needing $7 trillion investment, now it’s taking 1% of the world’s electricity…

      This Altman guy loves to throw around huge numbers. I’m generally distrustful of people like that – I find they’re usually trying to dazzle you with incomprehensible scale in an attempt to deceive you or mask their own ignorance/incompetence.

    30. Evan_802Vines on

      I feel some Moore’s law energy production improvements coming…

    32. SickeningPink on

      Generative AI is a machine that boils lakes so it can tell me to put glue on my pizza.

    33. RustyNK on

      As a data center tech with a nuclear background… I think my future is pretty secure

    34. AzulMage2020 on

      Just create a few more “non-profits” for the data centers and then a few more “non-profits” for the ongoing and incredibly costly power consumption needs . Once those ventures become for-profit and publicly traded , time to ask those friendly politicians to fund and subsidize them as they are a “public service utility” for the “public good”

    35. Tess47 on

      I want AI off my phone.  It’s taking over.  I wish it was a choice.   

    36. GiantAngryJellyfish on

      How about waterheaters and furnaces that run on waste heat from CPUs.

    38. Punushedmane on

      The nuclear power plants of the future will be built to fuel shitty AI generated porn.

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