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AI Needs So Much Power, It’s Making Yours Worse (www.bloomberg.com)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Is that actually being suggested? My understanding is that only a portion of the electricity production will go to data centers in most cases, with much of the rest going to local communities. Microsoft is buying all of 3 mile island's power, but that's going to data centers, which do a lot more than AI.