Scott Murray 
scott@sfba.social
RE: https://mastodon.green/@gerrymcgovern/116567154245513238
“Developers say the facility could eventually require up to 9 gigawatts of power. For perspective, Utah’s current statewide electricity demand typically peaks around 4 to 5 gigawatts. That means a single AI-focused campus could theoretically consume more power than the entire state currently uses.”
Gotta always appreciate Yahoo! News for doing the math for us! 💪🤔
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Simon Zerafa
simonzerafa@infosec.exchangeFor reference the Trinity test is listed as 100 TJ or 27.78 gigawatt-hours (GWh).
So 9 GW of power over what time period? 🤔
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Christine Lemmer-Webber
cwebber@social.coop@scott don't worry using ai is like little sips of teaspoons of water. it doesn't matter. you use more water and power drinking water than the water drinking water of the datacenter water
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@scott utah, being utah, is the 2nd driest state in the USA, by precipitation ...
did anyone say where all the water was expected to come from?
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Noisytoot
noisytoot
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Christine Lemmer-Webber
cwebber@social.coop@noisytoot @scott yes it's a joke about how some people talk about not worrying about datacenter resource consumption
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