[jes5199]

solar and battery costs are falling so fast that emissions are likely to go down, even with growth in energy use

[edhelas]

Sure sure, you did the maths ?

How many batteries do you need to power-up a datacenter at night ?

[Filligree]

Not that many, if you pair it with offshore wind, a large grid (which covers multiple time zones), and ideally nuclear.

The conditions for that don’t exist everywhere, but we don’t need these datacentres everywhere. LLMs aren’t latency-sensitive.

[p_j_w]

>if you pair it with offshore wind

Unfortunately the current government of the US is entirely beholden to fossil fuel interests so they're actively hostile to offshore wind.

[jes5199]

Tony Seba did the maths: https://www.rethinkx.com/publications/understandingstellaren...

[pizzuh]

Great point. Assuming we can adopt them at the correct pace and on a global scale, then energy doesn't have to be a limiting factor