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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] 20 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You only need 1.21 gigawatts to go back to the future in a Delorean.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I think you mean 1 point 21 jigowatts

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

Jigga what?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Yeah pretty neat. I spelled it out because I doubt many people in this day and age would pronounce it that way normally.