[Emma_Goldman]

I'm curious if anyone could expand on the numbers here. Global data centres running at max capacity are estimated to require ~45GW of electricity. That's a lot, but not necessarily for the whole world, so it really depends on the rate of growth, and in particular, its national/regional distribution. For reference, demand on the British electricity grid peaked at 37.5GW today:

https://grid.iamkate.com/

[megaman821]

Every article I have seen doesn't even provide numbers, which makes me think the claim is totally bogus if they are unwilling to quantify it. Plus there is massive flexibility in training on where and when it is run, they could easily pair it to areas and times of oversupply.

[slowmovintarget]

How else are they going to feed you information when they expect you to take rolling blackouts lying down. It's [looks down at notes on current tech thing] the AI from Big Tech causing it all.