Elon Musk: U.S. could soon be producing more chips than we can turn on, a problem China doesn’t have
Elon Musk warned the biggest issue hampering AI advancement in the United States is a problem Chinese competitors…
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Why the electrical grid needs more software
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/29/why-the-electrical-grid-needs-more-software/
"The power-grid operator for 65M ppl is being warned: its data-center boom could trigger🚨blackouts. Its own watchdog just asked the fed govt to step in & halt new data-cen hookups before outages become inevitable."
If we only had a functioning Congress...
Indiv states' legs could make a difference, but there're PJM interconnection coordinates the mvt of electricity thru all or parts of DE, IL, IN, KY, MD, MI, NJ, NC, OH, PA, TN, VA, WV +DC.
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https://www.levernews.com/data-center-boom-risks-blackouts-energy-watchdog-warns/
Environmental groups call for halt to new data center construction
Data center energy demand forecasted to soar nearly 300% through 2035
Rising data center electricity use risks blackouts during winter storms
But. But. But. But. Didn’t the US Republicans tell us that going solar would be too complicated and also too unreliable to use? Look how fast a country went from 1% adoption to 20%! And I noticed that tariffs play a part in decisions to do things differently. Hmmmm. #Solar #SolarPower #Electricity #ElectricalGrid
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"Data centers must coöperate with local electric utilities to manage these training runs. The water coursing above CoreWeave’s microchips enters at room temperature but leaves warmer than a hot bath. It is cooled in a storage tank before being recycled into the system. The temperature, humidity, and particulate count of the air inside the room are also carefully monitored. “Condensation is our enemy,” Conley said, gravely.
All these microchips, all this electricity, all these fans, all this money, all these data, all these water-cooling pumps and cables—all of it is there to tune the weights, this little file of numbers, which is small enough to fit on an external hard drive. A great deal depends on this well-tempered collection of synthetic neurons. The money spent to develop it, and others like it, represents one of the largest deployments of capital in human history.
When the finished product is ready, clones of the weights are distributed to data centers around the country, where they can be accessed through the internet, a process known as “inference.” Users ask questions, prompting the A.I. to produce individual units of intelligence called “tokens.” A token might be a small square of pixels or a fragment of a word. To write a college term paper, an A.I. might produce about five thousand tokens, consuming enough electricity to run a microwave oven at full power for about three minutes. As A.I. fields increasingly complex requests—for video, for audio, for therapy—the need for computing power will increase many times over."
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