If you put your finger on the pulse of AI’s progress, you will know that there is a growing concern about meeting the power requirements of the AI identifying data centers. Elon Musk’s Colasus supercomputer That Grook, alternatives to Chat GPT, deal with more than 30 methane gas turbine stations, but this construction has strongly criticized its effects on local air quality.
When Colasses fired for the first time last year, she was already making headlines. Partially because it took only three months, but also because its water and electricity are lifting the hunger eyebrows. In the case of the latter, the system uses electricity between 50 to 150 MW, and to meet this demand, Zee installed several methane burning gas turbines.
A report of South Environmental Law Center (Through Foodsla) It claims that these turbines were installed without permits and due to the emission of these machines, these machines raise serious concerns over the potential impact on local air quality. To further worsen matters, it appears that Xi is now applying for permits to constantly use turbines.
Memphis News Channel Wreg He writes that Paul Ying, the mayor of Memphis, argued that things were not as bad as he said, “There are 35 (turbines), but there are only 15 that continue. Other people are safe on the site.”
However, the thermal camera footage taken by the South Environment Law Center (SLEC) shows, at least 33 of the turbines produce heat for this moment. In other words, they were very useful.
Slack has criticized Zee’s point of view about the Collasus project: “From the beginning, the company worked with a surprising shortage of transparency, which affected the communities in the dark. Even many of the members of Memphis City were unaware of the projects and how it would be.”
Someone can think that the use of foam fuel is a poor choice – not only because of environmental impacts but also because of Rapid increase in renewable systems– But President Trump is starting a fleet Executive Fossil orders in favor of return to fuelIt is not difficult to see why Zai chose a gas turbine on anything. However, it is unlikely to have a long -term solution.
There is no way to avoid huge demand for any data center, and this is a problem that will be even worse, as Google, Meta, Openi, Z, and Microsoft have more systems to meet the AI growth goals. Is expected to Colasis increased from 200,000 to a million GPUsAnd no amount of gas turbines can expect to cover it realisticly.
Therefore, Zee will have to rely on a local power network and battery storage system to meet this level demand. But this causes the problem of generating electricity on someone else, and they can resort to the use of fossil fuel, even if Zee does not do so.
If you are not used in Grook or is not interested in it, you think it does not have a real effect on PC gaming. However, it is worth noting that AMD, Intel, and NVIDIA are all invested in building and using data centers to estimate and operate AI for their graphics technologies. In the case of the latter, Team Green just runs such a system flat out for six years, to improve the DLSS.
Although the NVIDIA center is unlikely to happen near energy demands like colas, it is a reminder that the cost of maintaining AI’s growth is more than just dollars. Energy and environment are also a significant part of the bill.
