We really need to tax energy used by GPU-burning projects differently. AI training, blockchain, whatever. Such a wasteful endeavour.
Fun fact they pay lower rate than households because fuxk you peasants ;)
All industrial users pay lower, because they’re able to apply economies of scale and locate themselves in places with lower power costs. Some of them are big enough that the utilities will build power lines and plants specifically to make electricity cheaper. It’s not just a matter of “oh, they’re rich, so we’ll charge them less.”
I do understand the basics of how this works but big and/or business is directly subsidized by taxpayer and rate payer at every corner. It is getting tiring seeing this clown show when large swathes of population living hand to mouth, month in, month out.
You would think this would make people realize where the money is going ;)
Carbon tax, it was proposed so many years ago and it’s always been a good idea.
By now it should be a hard carbon budget and not a simple tax that can be dodged.
No significant blockchains use GPUs any more. As for AI training, that produces AIs. It’s not wasteful.
I use AIs for a variety of productive purposes. You may not, and that’s fine, but that’s just you. You can’t dismiss anything that you personally don’t have a use for as “wasteful.”
(from Perplexity AI)
Wow that’s almost 6% of what Microsoft is buying this year for that same purpose.
It will produce bigoted falsehoods so damn fast!
He’s calling it a gigafactory? He already has a gigafactory, and it’s actually a factory.
Just call it a datacenter, because that’s what you’re building.
It’s also funny to use “giga” in the marketing when everyone else is dealing with petabytes
processing measured in teraflops. data measued in petabytes. coolness measured in gigachads.
TeraFLOPs? We’re already up to ExaFLOPs!
