by atomic128 on 12/3/24, 8:22 PM with 3 comments
by preisschild on 12/3/24, 9:19 PM
by atomic128 on 12/3/24, 8:26 PM
Unless you are located near a hydroelectric dam, there is really no substitute.
Here is a quote from Yann LeCun (Vice-President, Chief AI Scientist at Meta):
AI datacenters will be built next to energy production sites that can produce
gigawatt-scale, low-cost, low-emission electricity continuously.
Basically, next to nuclear power plants.
The advantage is that there is no need for expensive and wasteful
long-distance distribution infrastructure.
Note: Yes, solar and wind are nice and all, but they require lots of land
and massive-scale energy storage systems for when there is too little sun
and/or wind. Neither simple nor cheap.