US Slows Plans To Retire Coal-Fired Plants as Power Demand From AI Surges

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Very sustainable technology, this AI 😎

and the techbro ais are mostly a novelty so far...

I mean, it's all runing on general purpose hardware. If we decoded 4k video on general purpose hardware we'd use more power than every AI company put together, but once that became popular we developed chips capable of decoding it at the hardware level that consume barely any power.

And the exact same thing is starting to happen with dedicated machine learning chips / NPUs.