Comment Re:hyperscalers... (Score 1) 30
Except those hundreds of $10,000,000,000 datacenter projects are going to be canceled mid-construction since there's no need to build for future demand that will never materialize. The REITs that were building the datacenters don't really care, as they still own the land and can find something else to do with it or sell the land itself for a profit.
The whole present business model is screwy. The whole idea of re-commisioning nuclear rfeactors in order to have them supply power to AI is kinda telling. So you need 819 Megawatts (TMI unit 1 output) in order to power AI. Just curious - are you going to need to boil the Susquehanna River to cool these data centers? That's going to be a lot of pretty concentrated heat that needs dissipated.
Point is, this business as they are looking at it isn't the proper path. Maybe it is early on in AI, but if it requires that much power, in that many places - it won't work.
The concepts exist - now refine them, and maybe move beyond the over the top attempts at implementation.
And what more are we going to do with them. Mostly so far, I've seen AI as a way to make web searches relevant to my search terms, not just useless links normal, now useless Web Search gives. (try DDG AI answers)