While the mass adoption of AI has transformed digital life seemingly overnight, regulators have fallen asleep on the job in curtailing AI data centers’ drain on energy and water resources.
This is terrible. Why don’t we build nuclear power plants, rollout a carbon tax, and put incentives for companies to make their own energy via renewables?
You know the shit that we should have been doing before I was born.
I was talking about the photonic chips from Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands, but looking into it the last update on that was four years ago.
I know they were entangling photons, so there’s probably lots of research and parts to work on, but still, maybe it’s just not moving forwards.
I’m not that familiar with the technology, but the benefits seem worthy of more news than they get.
To be fair, it was never “hidden” since all the top 5 decided that GPU was the way to go with this monetization.
Guess who is waiting on the other side of this idiocy with a solution? AMD with cheap FPGA that will do all this work at 10x the speed and similar energy reduction. At a massive fraction of the cost and hassle for cloud providers.
I’m genuinely curious where their penny picking went? All of tech companies shove ads into our throats and steal our privacy justifying that by saying they operate at loss and need to increase income. But suddenly they can afford spending huge amounts on some shit that won’t give them any more income. How do they justify it then?
I would point out that Google has been “carbon neutral” with it’s data centers for quite some time, unlike others who still rape the environment ahem AWS.
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All of this just to give rich shareholders even more money.
Wait till they learn about the environmental impacts of the oil industry, or the plastic industry.
I think it’s time to accept this is battle that can’t be won
If only Google had a working search engine before AI
Yes, but now we can get much worse results and three pages of ads for ten times the energy cost. Capitalism at its finest.
This is terrible. Why don’t we build nuclear power plants, rollout a carbon tax, and put incentives for companies to make their own energy via renewables?
You know the shit that we should have been doing before I was born.
I build AI for a living, and I can tell you that generative AI is a crock of shit.
If these guys gave a shit they’d focus on light based chips, which are in very early stages, but will save a lot of power.
you mean the IBM light chips and bus ?
I was talking about the photonic chips from Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands, but looking into it the last update on that was four years ago.
I know they were entangling photons, so there’s probably lots of research and parts to work on, but still, maybe it’s just not moving forwards.
I’m not that familiar with the technology, but the benefits seem worthy of more news than they get.
What are IBM’s efforts like?
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To be fair, it was never “hidden” since all the top 5 decided that GPU was the way to go with this monetization.
Guess who is waiting on the other side of this idiocy with a solution? AMD with cheap FPGA that will do all this work at 10x the speed and similar energy reduction. At a massive fraction of the cost and hassle for cloud providers.
Where are all the people that were so damn pissed with Bitcoins power consumption now?
Or was it never about the power consumption in the first place and now that little Timmy has an Ai buddy the waste of electricity is fine. SMH
It’s far more important that every country fixes how it legally generates power that isn’t green. Make burning coal illegal already.
We hate both.
And it’s only 10x more useless :)
I’m genuinely curious where their penny picking went? All of tech companies shove ads into our throats and steal our privacy justifying that by saying they operate at loss and need to increase income. But suddenly they can afford spending huge amounts on some shit that won’t give them any more income. How do they justify it then?
Because data is king and sessions are going to be worth a lot more than searches. Go through the following
Talk to a LLM about what product to buy
Search online for a product to buy
Which one gives out more information about yourself?
Perception. If a company isn’t on the leading edge we don’t consider them the best.
Regardless if you use them or not, if Google didn’t touch AI but Edge did you would believe edge is more advanced.
I would point out that Google has been “carbon neutral” with it’s data centers for quite some time, unlike others who still rape the environment ahem AWS.
Carbon offsets? Yes indeed. The easiest, most useless way to reach carbon neutral.
Wow AI is just so amazing
And yet it’s still garbage…like their search