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		mikojan 44 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Rob Pike goes nuclear over GenAI OpenAI's internal target of ~250 GW of compute capacity by 2033 would require about as much electricity as the whole of India's current national electricity consumption[0]. [0]: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intell...

wpm 44 days ago [–]

My favorite factoid is that the most energetic power production facility on the planet is the Three Gorges Dam, with a nameplate capacity of 22.5GW.

That dam took 10 years to build and cost $30B.

And OpenAI needs more than ten of them in 7 years.

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