AI hype is deflating. Can AI companies find a way to turn a profit ? - The Washington Post
▻https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/04/18/ai-bubble-hype-dying-money
Oui : on a toujours le même goulet d’étranglement : la quantité d’#énergie disponible. C’est une véritable fuite en avant : bagnoles électriques sur-subventionnées, PAC, AI et derrière, un marché de l’électricité qui marche sur la tête et empêche les gens de se chauffer, voir de travailler. Et des couts et des retards qui s’accumulent pour les mises en chantier de nouvelles sources d’énergie.
On va dans le mur en klaxonnant.
#affligeant.
Training bigger and better AI models has another crucial ingredient — electricity to power the warehouses of computer chips crunching all that data. The AI boom has already kicked off a wave of new data center construction, but it’s unclear whether the United States will be able to generate enough electricity to run them. AI, coupled with a surge in new manufacturing facilities, is pushing up predictions for how much electricity will be needed over the next five years, said Mike Hall, CEO of renewable energy management software company Anza, and a 20-year veteran of the solar power industry.
“People are starting to talk about a crisis, are we going to have enough power?” Hall said.