Chinese AI tech could cut projected spike in US electricity demand
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Are we planning too many new power plants to fuel data centers? Advocates call for more protections for consumers — and the climate

cross-posted from: https://ponder.cat/post/1486028

A new artificial intelligence model from China not only upended stock markets this week, it also called into question whether the rush to build new, mostly fossil-fueled power plants to run data centers is premature.

  • BananaEnglish
    51·
    3 hours ago

    That’s not the threat you think it is

    • shoulderoforion@fedia.io
      22·
      3 hours ago

      China is an entire economy built on intellectual property thievery and slave labor. The whole thing, that’s their advantage, and source of gdp which perpetuates the CCP’s stranglehold on 1.4 Billion people . Theft and slavery. The Chinese CCP can fuck off into the sun.

      • BananaEnglish
        21·
        2 hours ago

        The only difference between that and the US is that China calls itself communist (china is communist in the same way the states is a democracy).

        Oh, and the Chinese actually have socialized healthcare.