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by edhelas 390 days ago
Sure sure, you did the maths ?

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

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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.

>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.