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these AI companies and their data center is gobbling up A LOT of energy. Nvidia and OpenAI is planning an AI center that uses 10 GW of power lol. That is like 1/5th of a large city's power??
and then these assholes pretend to be concern about climate change.. they are making these 600w video cards and also video games gobbling up all those wattage too..
Energy would be dirt cheap if they didn't cockblock nuclear. There is a sudden renewed interest in nuclear precisely because they can't play their dumb degrowth playbook while chasing their AI dreams.
They could solve it by building nuclear stations nationwide (for everyone, not just data centers) but we know they’ll just reallocate energy from regular people to these large companies.
rolling blackouts are a sign that progress is working
The entirety of videogames is practically nothing in terms of power consumption compared to a single AI datacenter
Ironically video games rarely utilize 100% of the card. Less so these days as they do everything in low resolution and then use all the bullshit "AI" parts of the chip to magically upscale the output. Same with frame rates.
It's clear that none of the improvements in video cards over the past 5 years have had anything to do with the entertainment side of the product.
Those statements are essentially payola to the politicians and NGOs running that particular scam. No one but the useful idiots on the bottom actually believe it.