Are we all fucked?

[Barnacle Billy]

Spaniards still out celebrating their World Cup win 7 weeks later ⚽

[jobrok1]

 

[Barnacle Billy]

Took a while 

[The Butcher]

https://www.anthropic.com/institute/econ-scenarios

'Knowledge economy' up in flames...but think of the GDP

[Anvil]

I've seen predictions that US data centres will be consuming at least 10% of all power generated power in the USA by 2030... We will all have jobs feeding the furnaces or running on hamster wheels to power the AI to do our jobs. 

[The Butcher]

It's hard to accept seeing the headlines like "Gas discounts for data centres" only to also read things like "Bord Gais/Energia increase prices by 9% etc". Esp when I know data centres here in Ireland are nowhere near full capacity, on average there's about 42% of capacity not being used at all. That's a lot considering they want to build more of them here...why not use the existing capacity? Not to even mention the stress on the grid and future black outs.

Also these AI models are getting more efficient, getting more out of less compute, this is akin to the property bubble building 60,000 houses in 2005 and ending up with ghost estates few years later.

[astfgyl]

It's hard to accept seeing the headlines like "Gas discounts for data centres" only to also read things like "Bord Gais/Energia increase prices by 9% etc". Esp when I know data centres here in Ireland are nowhere near full capacity, on average there's about 42% of capacity not being used at all. That's a lot considering they want to build more of them here...why not use the existing capacity? Not to even mention the stress on the grid and future black outs.

Also these AI models are getting more efficient, getting more out of less compute, this is akin to the property bubble building 60,000 houses in 2005 and ending up with ghost estates few years later.

How we would absolutely absorb 60000 gaffs now