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I watched Nvidia's Computex 2024 keynote and it made my blood run cold
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Okay seriously peeps, please please please read this so we can avoid an unmitigated disaster:
Cloud providers like Google run on a separate power grid in order to increase availability. To keep costs down, 90% of their energy comes from clean power generated by their own private power stations, and that number is increasing daily. Source
Consumer grade electric in most of the US is only 22% renewable, and all the rest comes from fossil fuels. Source
Moving more AI workloads to consumer hardware would put strain on the aging consumer power grid infrastructure, and would massively increase emissions.
Don’t forget that just a couple years ago, people died in Texas because crypto put too much strain on their power grid and took it out. Please can we not repeat that same mistake?