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I watched Nvidia's Computex 2024 keynote and it made my blood run cold (www.techradar.com)

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One million Blackwell GPUs would suck down an astonishing 1.875 gigawatts of power. For context, a typical nuclear power plant only produces 1 gigawatt of power.

Fossil fuel-burning plants, whether that's natural gas, coal, or oil, produce even less. There's no way to ramp up nuclear capacity in the time it will take to supply these millions of chips, so much, if not all, of that extra power demand is going to come from carbon-emitting sources.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Nvidia could announce a side-gig dedicated to fossil-free, local power generation. Get your money coming and going.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Boil water with the heat coming off their GPUs, use the steam to turn turbines, use the generated electricity to power the GPUs! Free unlimited power! Why hasn't anyone gotten in on this yet?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

You're not far off: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20171013-where-data-centres-store-info---and-heat-homes