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AI Computing on Pace to Consume More Energy Than India, Arm Says (news.bloomberglaw.com)

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AI’s voracious need for computing power is threatening to overwhelm energy sources, requiring the industry to change its approach to the technology, according to Arm Holdings Plc Chief Executive Officer Rene Haas.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

If only there had been another widespread, wasteful prior use of expensive and power hungry compute equipment that suddenly became less valuable/effective and could quickly be repurposed to run LLMs...

[–] [email protected] -3 points 6 months ago

Pretty sure the big AI corps aren't depending on obsolete second-hand half-burned-out Ethereum mining rigs for their AI training.