During a recent AMD AI conference, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman controversially suggested that a significant portion of the world's power grid should be dedicated to running AI models. His admission follows a history of outages faced by OpenAI, likely due to a shortage of computing power, specifically GPUs. Altman's remarks raise concerns about the environmental impact of such a demand on electricity, especially given that fossil fuel-based generation dominates the power landscape, and the current grid is already under strain.
Theoretically, at some points, you can see that a significant fraction of the power on Earth should be spent running AI compute, and maybe we're going to get there.
Altman's admission about AI's power consumption potential highlights a serious oversight regarding the environmental implications of increasing electricity demand, particularly from fossil fuels.
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