Sam Altman, CEO of Openai, has announced that the company’s new dataceers will be more than 5 GW. This is beyond the use of the whole city of New York.
Openai recely announced a strategic partnership with Nvidia. The two technology gias iend to build and launch more than 2 GW of Dataceer. Nvidia’s investme in the project has been announced at $ 5 billion, but one of the most importa challenges for launching these dataceers is the issue of electricity supply.
Artificial ielligence datasers consume a significa volume of electricity
According to Fortune, planned dataceers may consume electricity as much as the whole city of New York, but Openai will not be enough. Projects related to Stargit Initiative can also add another 5 GW to this amou; That is, almost as much as New York Consumer and San Digo California during the devastating heat wave last year.
Professor FEngqi You of the Cornell University Energy Systems Engineering Departme says 2 GW is more than the maximum demand for Swiss or Portuguese electricity, and 2 GW is equivale to both power supply.
Openai and Nvidia have already set up a dataceer in Texas, with electricity consumption equivale to 6,000 resideial units. It is expected that the consumption of five new Stargit projects is expected to reach 5 GW, making energy supply io a fundameal challenge.
Efforts to expand artificial ielligence infrastructure have been accompanied by environmeal concerns, with technology gias admit that they are far from achieving their carbon emissions goals. Although the precision carbon footpri of the technology is still unclear, artificial ielligence dataceers put a lot of pressure on local water resources to keep their hardware cool.
Recely, some technology companies have come up with nuclear power plas to supply the electricity needed by artificial ielligence datasers. Scieists have warned that the power consumption of these databases will soon be higher than bitcoin extraction and some couries, and these ceers need as much energy as Japan‘s total power consumption by year.
