Technology

It's incredibly surprising that neglecting infrastructure investments for a mere few decades would have such an effect.

The race to what?

THE RACE TO WHAT MOTHERFUCKERS?

“This is a stark contrast to the U.S., where AI growth is increasingly tied to debates over data center power consumption and grid limitations”

Won't anyone rid us off this troublesome democracy, so that tech companies may grow in peace ?

Articles like this are being pushed by AI CEOs and investors to force the US public to pay for grid upgrades to support their profit making. Socialize costs, privatize profits.

If, like most Americans, you've noticed an increase in your electric rates in the last year it is in no small part due to the increased demand put on the system by AI data centers. You're already paying more to prop this shit up because they're chasing gains with no regard to efficiency.

Coal use isn’t cast as a sign of villainy, as it would be among some circles in the U.S. – it’s simply seen as outdated. This pragmatic framing, Fishman argued, allows policymakers to focus on efficiency and results rather than political battles.

There's truly something for western politicians to learn from this

China decided to end their dependence on foreign fossil fuels.

The USA decided to double down on oil.

This is all based on the assumption that AI will need exponential power.

It will not.

• AI is a bubble.

• Even if it isn't, fab capacity is limited.

• The actual 'AI' market is racing to the bottom with smaller, task focused models.

• A bunch of reproduced papers (like bitnet, and sparsity schemes) that reduce power exponentially are just waiting for someone to try a larger test.

• They're slowly getting less 'dumbly implemented' so they can actually reference real info for tasks.

• Alltogether... that means inference moves to smartphones and PCs.

This is just the finance crowd parroting Altman. Not that the US doesnt need a better energy grid like China, but the justification (AI scaling) is built on lies that aren't going to happen.

The lazy western capitalists being out-competed at their own game, you say?

Who'd have thought that not letting your infrastructure rot would put one in a better position to do infrastructure stuff? Not us, because planning ahead is for poors and commies

So they want us to foot the bill to upgrade our power grid, and then grind it to a fucking halt again in an effort to create better anime big-tiddy goth gf avatars and shitty electro music?

No worries. AI will figure out a way out of our energy mess by consuming Immense amounts of ener.... WAIT...

I think Trump open war against them helps, I mean, if you cut them our of critical supply, you push them to develop their own, they're not stupid.

The next time a bootlicker demands you present proof of the failings of capitalism, just point out what profit incentive does to a nation's power grid

They won't care or listen of course, but at least you can make others aware of their spurious arguments

America is out of the race as a technological leader, we have crippled our education on all levels for half a century, are a land of FAMOUSLY anti-intellectual citizens, and have offshored all off our RnD and manufacturing, ignored infrastructure collapse and elected a facts-optional government

And every single hammer blow over the last 50 years to our nation's independence and capability was signed by repugnicunt hands all under the banner of patriotism and greatness

And we can't even organize a protest to keep them from deporting American citizens with no due process.

I hope all of you Genocide Joe memers a terrible, lonely, and complicated rest of your lives

And what kind of "grand slam" are we talking about? I know whatever it is they want it real bad, but to you're average human being: is filing out tps reports with 90 percent accuracy really that important?

China has been ramping up building of coal power plants, many of which are operating at 50% capacity: https://lemmy.ca/post/49779092