Generative AI requires massive amounts of power and water, and the aging U.S. grid can’t handle the load

[1srelluc]

https://archive.is/RgKfz#selection-2236.0-2245.104

Thanks to the artificial intelligence boom, new data centers are springing up as quickly as companies can build them. This has translated into huge demand for power to run and cool the servers inside.

Now concerns are mounting about whether the U.S. can generate enough electricity for the widespread adoption of AI, and whether our aging grid will be able to handle the load.

“If we don’t start thinking about this power problem differently now, we’re never going to see this dream we have,” said Dipti Vachani, head of automotive at Arm.

These mega corporations should build their own power plants (modular nuke) and not burden the taxpayer with it as the data centers only create 30 full time long-term jobs.

The negatives are going to out weight the positives for everyone but the .gov and oligarchs.

If nothing else, that > $100 Billion we've pissed away in Ukraine would have built some power plants. Surely the politicians could have got their kickbacks out of that....Using union labor and the like.

They are building them as fast as they can grease the local politician's hands in NOtVA.

 

[Blackrook]

We don't have to think about this, because we have a free enterprise system. If there's a demand for power and water, the free market will meet that demand.