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Alex de Campi

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Sources: EPRI, Powering Intelligence; Luccioni et al, Power Hungry Processing; blog post by computer science professor Wim Vanderbauwhede. All freely available to read, I can provide direct links if folks are curious

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Alex de Campi's avatar Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social
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Basically, data centers are growing rapidly and taking MORE power (thanks, GPUs) after years of getting more efficient/ flat electricity need, and it’s straining the US power grid. US data centers currently consume more power than the state of New Jersey

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Graham M.'s avatar Graham M. @graham-m.bsky.social
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Yes, links, please, if you've got them to hand Thanks!

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Ryan Humphrey's avatar Ryan Humphrey @ryanhumphrey.bsky.social
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Direct link please, as I’m curious on the methodology. I played a bit with stable diffusion when it was new. Prompts took a few seconds to resolve on my desktop. I wasn’t running a voltmeter on it, but there’s no way the energy usage matches up with this

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