AI is exhausting the power grid

Usable energy (work) is the lifeblood of any country. Do the sane thing and start building nuclear again.

Heh, if you think that's bad, we're going to hit peak oil extraction ability next year. After that, it will get gradually more and more expensive every year to extract a gallon of oil. The implications of this are huge, and the most likely result (unless we can all cooperate) is energy cannibalization.

AI couldn't happen at a worse time in history.

We literally have a huge fusion reactor in the solar system that we can use right now for clean energy.

Don't get me wrong, I support research and development into nuclear fusion and it would be amazing if it worked but baking the future of the planet on technology that may or may not work seems crazy to me.

I guess power grids have never grown when demand increased.

This article claiming "AI is exhausting the power grid" seems awfully light on actual evidence that AI is exhausting the power grid.

More aggressive layout of solar is the best thing to do. I don't agree with all the pro-nuclear sentiment after Fukushima. It's like nuclear is always safe "now", don't consider any previous disasters.

It would be interesting to see a chart showing the % share of electricity being used for real world activities versus abstract computations. The current AI wave reminds me of Bitcoin.

You have to wonder if humans actually need all that processing. It would seem we have more intelligence than we need; every aspect of our lives is already over-schematized. We don't need more control and more advanced abstractions to keep our minds busy, we need the opposite; less control and more time. I hope things will shift more towards using AI to solve physical problems.

There is no free lunch . Humanity has to pay a price for everything esply if we want to go against or want to outdo Nature which has taken billons of years to provide us with whatever we need for our happy survival. But humanity is invested with insatiable curiosity and want to know what's on the other side of the mountain, even at the cost of our survival and land ourselves and mother nature into trouble . But that's OK . We are what we are !

Move to Texas, specifically the ERCOT grid. Texans love power suckers like bitcoin miners, so AI should fit right in.

I'm always late to the comments as I am busy elsewhere, apologies. For those creating energy solutions I encourage all to listen. Start @ 02:41:25

www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4Skit8Jwhw

Mr Pfluger of Texas "Are renewables baseload capable?"

Dr Lott "Renewables are not 24/7/365 capable in an economic way, technically as an engineer I can design you a system but then we have to pay for it. So what we find is you want a mix of renewables because they are cheap when they are there, you want to compliment them with storage and you want compliment them with firm dispatchable power that can be there 24/7/365 and design the markets to that everyone can get paid effectively to keep their systems well maintained and online."

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Hon. Clark "With regard to the RTOs, taking off from where Dr Lotts was, I agree with everything that was said, there be mix of efficiency, demand response, solar, batteries, renewables and dispatchable capacity designing a market around that is extraordinarily difficult because the markets are designed to run what's cheapest to run right now and that has been a 20 year process trying to get those market signals correct."

In the end someone has to take the risk and do it as our world is only the way it is today because of entrepreneurs that took the risks. This forum has more than a few serial risk takers I deduce, including myself.

Go build something they tell me, Ok.

At what point will it make sense to Microsoft to build their own nuclear plant?

Time to build some nuclear plants.

We let Westinghouse die and now all boo hoo no power.

Good. Now we can shut it down lol

Shut down the stupid blockchain miners that are taxing the grid for no good reason beyond transferring wealth upward.