Electricity bills have already been increasing heavily around AI datacenters. I read an article about a place in the Netherlands where they can’t build any more houses at the moment because they’re building a datacenter that is going to take that electricity.
Aside from driving profits through demand for LLM use, these data centers are an environmental disaster.
The scale of these facilities is insane. A flagship LLM model can require around 1 TB of RAM to run effectively. A mid-tier model may need roughly 140 GB. In contrast, a top-end gaming PC typically needs 64 GB at most, and the vast majority of systems function perfectly well with 16 GB.
I was simply pointing out that these massive data centers exist because that demand exists.
Electricity bills have already been increasing heavily around AI datacenters. I read an article about a place in the Netherlands where they can’t build any more houses at the moment because they’re building a datacenter that is going to take that electricity.
Aside from driving profits through demand for LLM use, these data centers are an environmental disaster.
The scale of these facilities is insane. A flagship LLM model can require around 1 TB of RAM to run effectively. A mid-tier model may need roughly 140 GB. In contrast, a top-end gaming PC typically needs 64 GB at most, and the vast majority of systems function perfectly well with 16 GB.
I was simply pointing out that these massive data centers exist because that demand exists.
Bless you for saying LLM rather than AI.