Have we tried switching them off?
That would be too reasonable.
True title: citizens in whole countries are without power, AI data centers must stay online
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What they’ll do is they’ll ask for subsidies to build power plants, privatise them, sell the power at increasingly extortionate rates and cut maintenance costs to increase their margins and profits.
Possibly.
then buy out the competition and have monopoly paid by people its going to extort
That’s effectively why Microsoft’s plan to restart Three Mile Island is stalled out. They want it to be paid by taxpayer dollars despite (as far as I know) having no plans to provide the generated electricity to taxpayers.
That’s roughly what I had in mind when I wrote that comment indeed…
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Good.
Is it because the training/use needs to happen within a single datacenter? Or are they saying that there are not enough data center capacity in total in the world to meet the demand?
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