they will tell total tho https://www.latitudemedia.com/news/microsoft-reveals-the-energy-impact-of-artificial-intelligence

this works out to 2.7GW in 2023, on average. that’s comparable to peak daily consumption in croatia (today), if that 30%-ish figure is accurate then something closer to 700MW is ai-only, that’s smaller country like macedonia

which only highlights how bizarre is their 5GW proposition. hey let’s outbuild ms 2x, like, now

ez. remember that announcement when ms said their energy use got up 36%? that’s ai, and includes both training and use

this still can be fudged with more efficient office heating, shutdowns of least efficient dcs and so on, but only to a limited degree

i started to look up satellite photos and openinframap in order to figure out maximum capacity of their substations, but powerlines for them are probably massively oversized, and substations are probably oversized too in order to make it redundant and high-availability so there might be some way to guess it but then some of these will be underground and if they’re doing load-following to match their renewables (which might be cheaper for them) then it’s also oversized a bit on top of that

how much it does use anyway? 5GWe was from delusional openai talk for investors, so maybe lower

this is just zizek’s perfect date but gay and with chatbots

it’s like he’s purposefully trying to think as little as possible

combined cycle gas powerplants can get almost to 60%

i don’t think they’re planning to build anything, but it’d be very funny if they ended up doing that anyway bleeding MS out of money

i don’t think TMI even has space for 5 blocks

*ammonium nitrate storage, most likely for fertilizer use

You can tell by characteristic orange cloud containing nitrogen dioxide