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Data centre power use 'to surge six-fold in 10 years' due to boom in artificial intelligence (AI) and quantum computing, National Grid predicts (www.bbc.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Chief executive John Pettigrew said the grid was becoming "constrained" and "bold action" was needed to create a network able to cope with "dramatically" growing demand.

"Future growth in foundational technologies like artificial intelligence and quantum computing will mean larger scale, energy-intensive computing infrastructure," Mr Pettigrew said.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (3 children)

due to [...] quantum computing.

[x] doubt

[–] fcuks 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

how come doubt? Amazon, IBM, Google, and Microsoft have already launched commercial quantum-computing cloud services.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

so far there is no significant quanum advantage, i.e. most things you can do on a quantum computer, you can do cheaper on a regular computer. Therefor there is not much value in quantum computing. Therefor I doubt we will see a significant surge in power-use due to quantum computing in the next 10 years

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBLVtCYHVO8

[–] fcuks 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

The video you posted is from 2022, the same lady has another one from 9 days ago and 13 days ago which are much less anti

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALwrwbnWLjo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2hn9kQHi_s

Going by this timeline wonder how her content will be framing quantum computing in the next couple of years

haha let alone what she'd be posting or quantum computing will be able to do within your /the OP's article's 10 year timeline