100% utilization yes, but server uptimes are in the 99 percent range.

Mine gets so exited they won’t stay still long though to get the leash on to actualy go on a walk!

The Hobbit wasn’t originally set in middle earth. He started working on the Silmarillion in 1914 at 22, but didn’t start Lord of the Rings till much later. I don’t know if he began to set the Hobbit in middle earth before or after starting on Lord of the Rings.

I can’t find any info on Vatican City’s energy use, but possibly. You could go even further and compare to not widly recognized countries like sealand, where you have the energy consumption of a residential house or two. But that would be wildly misleading.

Looks like revenue this quarter was $19.34B. That’s slightly less than the 2024 Q1 result of $21.3B. Looks like Q1 is usually lower, let’s make this trend continue to following quarters.

https://macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/tsla/tesla/revenue

I couldn’t find that version digitally, but looks like this one is a bit newer. I like yours better though with the pictures.

Maybe about 33% less electricity than human digital art? I don’t feel like calculating this myself.

https://www.reddit.com/r/aiwars/comments/11v5ovu/comment/jcsj7uy/

Yes, but those servers are pretty ai specific, so that’s a decent assumption. Looks like Nvidia is drastically ramping up production of these servers, so current electricity use might be about 10x, I’m working on it.

From this 2023 paper, looks like if all Nvidia AI servers are running 24/7, you’d get an energy consumption of about 5.7–8.9 TWh per year. Nvidia servers make up 95% of the AI market (according to the paper) so that’d be pretty close to what AI servers would consume.

The paper also estimates about 20% of crypto mining GPUs no longer mining etherium converted to AI, which contributed another 16.1 TWh per year.

This doesn’t include some AI, but it should be the majority.

Between those two sources, that gives 23.4 TWh per year. That gives 0.08 exta joules per year per this converter. That’s 22% of Sri Lanka’s energy consumption (which is the lowest country).

So AI in a year uses at much energy as Sri Lanka uses in 3 months. At least in 2023. I’ll see if I can find a more recent study.

What country? Sir Lanka? This isn’t a useful comparison as is, I’ll see if I can dig up actual numbers.

The source is available, right? You just can’t fork it to include ads? Or you can’t fork it at all?

There’s no hope of zero warning. There’s hope that we can minimize the warming to that 6C or lower. And hope that we can help ecosystem adapt to new climates. There are corals that are adapting, we need to make sure they survive and spread. We might even need to engineer in heat tolerance. Warming is coming, if they only need to deal with it, they might be able to adapt. But when you stack an half a dozen other significant stressors, it becomes much less likely to survive. So reducing those stressors helps, even if global warming is going to be bad.

That sounds like an excuse to not try anything. We need to push for as much harm reduction as we can, not just give up because a lot of things will die.

Hank Green video on what we can do. Reefs can actually recover from bleaching, which I didn’t know.

https://youtu.be/hxZDyV-E5WY

Yeah, the defeatist view is really dangerous. But as the video addresses, by limiting other stressors, reefs can recover even at higher temperatures.

I wonder what that red spot in Russia is

Hank Green video on what we can do. Reefs can actually recover from bleaching, which I didn’t know.

https://youtu.be/hxZDyV-E5WY

The Russian constitution still claims the whole regions, right? So they’ll just restart when they feel like it.

You using private capital as synonymous with powerful people? Rich people to tend to be powerful, but they’re not the only ones.

And are you saying the treaty of versailles and it’s fallout were part of the conditions for fascism, and were capitalist in nature?

Whether a king is above the law or not is the difference between a democratic or absolute monarchy. He thinks he’s above the law, so I guess he’s shooting for absolute monarchy.