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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.

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Data centers risk missing US climate goals, especially with AI (pivot-to-ai.com)
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[–] sc_griffith@awful.systems 15 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

But a Goldman Sachs report from May forecasts that AI in particular will be 23% of data center power usage, and data centers in general will be 8% of all US power usage, by 2030 — if the 2024 trend lines continue.

according to my abacus this means about 2% of all US power consumption is projected to be devoted to autocomplete. I feel like I'm living in a shitty boomer comic strip about technology

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 15 points 4 months ago

Half of (consumer?) internet traffic is ads.

Big tech was never not idiotic.