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Tech firms look for a miracle solution as AI exhausts the power grid - The Washington Post
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This is the best solution to the #EnergyConsumption problem I've seen!!!
https://kolektiva.social/@Tom@crinstamcamp.com/112425284796546968
Crinstam CampTom (@Tom@crinstamcamp.com)@DoomsdaysCW@kolektiva.social @silasmariner@hostux.social Pass laws that datacenters and AI complexes have to have 100% renewable energy sources. If you can't invest in power production than you shouldn't be using massive amounts of power.
From 2022: #Bitcoin Mining: How Much Electricity It Takes and Why People Are Worried
#Crypto consumes a ton of power to keep things running.
Oscar Gonzalez
July 18, 2022 2:08 p.m. PT
"Bitcoin mining uses around as much energy as #Argentina, according to the Bitcoin Energy Consumption Index, and at that annualized level of 131.26 terawatt-hours, crypto mining would be in the top 30 of countries based on #EnergyConsumption"
"As the energy bill for crypto mining rises, so does the amount of #carbon and waste, adding to the growing #ClimateCrisis.
"Here's what you need to know about crypto mining and its energy uses.
"What is crypto mining?
"When bitcoins are traded, computers across the globe race to complete a computation that creates a 64-digit hexadecimal number, or hash, for that bitcoin. This hash goes into a public ledger so anyone can confirm that the transaction for that particular bitcoin happened. The computer that solves the computation first gets a reward of 6.2 bitcoins, or about $134,000 at current prices.
"Other cryptocurrencies and #NFTs use similar mining technologies, contributing to the overall energy usage.
What is a crypto mining rig?
"It's a barebones computer with multiple graphics cards, or GPUs, instead of the single-card standard, and it does the work to complete a computation. Rigs usually use powerful GPUs from Nvidia and AMD to handle calculations and require high-wattage power supplies. The popularity of mining led to a shortage of graphics cards, which in turn caused their values to rise.
A crypto mining farm, in shades of green and blue, in Nadvoitsy, Russia.
A crypto mining farm in Nadvoitsy, Russia. Getty Images
Why is crypto mining so energy-intensive?
For starters, graphics cards on mining rigs work 24 hours a day. That takes up a lot more power than browsing the internet. A rig with three GPUs can consume 1,000 watts of power or more when it's running, the equivalent of having a medium-size window AC unit turned on.
"Crypto mining businesses can have hundreds or even thousands of rigs in one location. A mining center in #Kazakhstan is equipped to run 50,000 mining rigs, and another mining farm in #China has a monthly electricity bill of more than $1 million as it mines 750 #bitcoins a month.
Not only do rigs take up power, they also generate heat. The more rigs you have, the hotter it gets. If you don't want your rigs to melt, you need some cooling. Many mining rigs have multiple built-in computer fans. But if you have multiple rigs, the room quickly gets hot, requiring external cooling. Small operations, like those run by individuals, can get by with a typical standing fan. Mining centers, however, need a lot more cooling, which in turn requires even more electricity."
CNETBitcoin Mining: How Much Electricity It Takes and Why People Are WorriedCrypto consumes a ton of power to keep things running.
There is a lot of arguing #OnHere and elsewhere about whether renewable energy is clean energy.
To understand every aspect of clean energy's footprint on our environment is not as important as realizing that all of our sources of energy have a tremendous footprint, at least initially.
So, what is "clean" about energy? The only truly clean aspect of energy right now is reducing our consumption of it. Period.
We have not been able to quench our thirst for energy through either fossil fuels or renewables. It is ever-growing. It is important to keep this image in mind when looking at plots that show relative percentages of energy use - those plots can lull you into thinking our energy consumption totals are statute. They are NOT!
Source: https://ourworldindata.org/energy-production-consumption
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AI is fueling a data center boom. It must be stopped.
Silicon Valley believes more computation is essential for progress. But they ignore the resource burden and don’t care if the benefits materialize.
#ai #artificialintelligence #datacentres #energy #energyconsumption #climatechange
Disconnect · AI is fueling a data center boom. It must be stopped.Silicon Valley believes more computation is essential for progress. But they ignore the resource burden and don’t care if the benefits materialize.
Even though #ThingUmbrella isn't using a low-level language, many of its design aspects and decisions are explicitly about keeping resource usage low and being generally aware of code bundling, tree shaking (dead code elimination), CPU, energy & bandwidth consumptions... As the collection now consists of 186 libraries (with ~3850 source files!), every even minor saving in the shared build infrastructure will quickly have a positive compounding impact. Over the past month I've been busy updating & testing new tooling for the entire monorepo and am super happy to report _drastically_ reduced build & test times! "Drastically" here meaning a factor of 10-20x(!!!) faster... 
Time to build & test the entire monorepo on GitHub's CI:
Previously, using only TypeScript for building & NodeJS for testing:
30-40 mins (
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Now, using https://esbuild.github.io for building and https://bun.sh for testing:
1:50-2 mins (
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On my MBA M1 (2021) the whole process only takes now 56 seconds!
If you want to apply the same kind of optimizations for your own project, do take a look at my package.json and tsconfig.json files in this repo:
https://github.com/thi-ng/umbrella
Ps. It's also #ReleaseMonday. Details about that in a later post... 
#BBC Research & Development's Blue Room monitors consumer technologies' impact on the BBC and its audiences. This includes evaluating modern #televisions and their features, including #energyconsumption. Asking an initial question, 'how much energy do televisions use?' ultimately led us on a journey to develop and implement a new idea that we called 'Lower #Carbon #Graphics' (LCGFx), which we believe has already saved #energy in homes across the UK. https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2023-08-sustainability-energy-saving-radio-tv-led-graphics #lighting
BBC R&DIntroducing the energy saving concept of Lower Carbon GraphicsDeveloping and implementing a new idea which we believe has already saved energy in homes across the UK.