Data centre energy usage has outpaced growth of renewable energy in Ireland
"Total demand for electricity last year grew by 4.4pc, or 1.3 terawatts (TW), but 80pc of that increase, or 1.1TW, was from data centre growth."
Training data for LLMs = higher energy prices and environmental degradation.
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It turns AI really is going to try to wipe out the humans. Just, you know, indirectly through human activity trying to make it happen.
aw dawg, not the peat bogs!