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Dan Davis@bindlestaff.bsky.social |
The AI facility in Musk’s new Gigafactory in Texas will house 50,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs. Each one consumes about 3,740 kWh annually. So *just to power the GPUs,* Musk will need 187GWh per year. This is higher annual consumption than some entire countries.
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Mykalwane
@mykalwane.bsky.social
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its larger consumption then the grid can handle.
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(Enn) Nafnlaus 🇮🇸 🇺🇦
@nafnlaus.bsky.social
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For comparison: Bitcoin consumes 91 TWh/yr (about 500x). Which is in turn a touch less than video games, 105 TWh/yr.
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m o c h y
@mochy.bsky.social
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I agree that this is terrible, of course But you should really mention that Tesla's ambitions in this realm pale in comparison to Microsoft and Meta. Each of the following already had 50k H100's purchased as of 2023; Tencent, Oracle, Amazon, Google Tesla is just an also-ran when it comes to "AI"
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Luci Lemonseed
@lucidpup.bsky.social
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It would be really cute and quirky if that building gets blown up
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Alten Försterei in SF 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
@nickel76.bsky.social
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My EV which I drive 8,000 Miles a year only uses 2,222 kWh a year
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atreides nuts
@afivegantenna.bsky.social
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there’s no energy concern with ai bro trust me bro it’s just like google searches bro
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Keith Edwards
@kedwards.bsky.social
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For comparison, that’s enough power to send a Delorean through time 154.5 times.
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Heidi
@heidikar.bsky.social
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Meanwhile Austin Energy is telling me to set my thermostat to 78 degrees 😐
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The Hungry Wolf
@hungrywolf.bsky.social
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Given the state of the Texas power grids... I doubt that mess will so much as turn on without causing a massive disaster.
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Dan Davis
@bindlestaff.bsky.social
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NOTE: I’ve deleted the previous post here, as it included a significant error. Musk himself has estimated 105GWh per year on top of that just to *cool* those GPUs. So 292GWh/yr will be consumed by the GPUs + cooling infrastructure. This is city-sized power consumption.
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Sagittarius A*
@sagastar.bsky.social
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if the texas grid is known for anything, it's a power grid that can handle heavy load.
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Drew
@mach1group.bsky.social
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Good thing Texas has such a robust power grid to support this added load.
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Temple Drake
@templedrake.bsky.social
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And yet no one is saying NO
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Tyler
@okty.bsky.social
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@eboldy.bsky.social our convo earlier
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The Chillennial
@thechillennial.bsky.social
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This will never be built.
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Lizardguy64
@lizardguy64.bsky.social
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Question, if we know where it is, what is stopping us from damaging or defacing it?
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