Meta Is Building Massive Gigawatt Data Centers as It Pours Billions Into AI

[Karel]

"Just one of these covers a significant part of the footprint of Manhattan,” Mark Zuckerberg said.

https://gizmodo.com/meta-is-building-massive-gigawatt-data-centers-as-it-pours-billions-into-ai-2000628918

[iMo]

.. a compelling example of how fundamental physical phenomenon - the "fusion of hydrogen atoms" - become "information"..
 

[Simmed]

Zuckerberg said the first of the superclusters, called Prometheus, will come online sometime in 2026, with “multiple more titan clusters” to follow. According to Zuck, “Just one of these covers a significant part of the footprint of Manhattan.” According to a report from SemiAnalysis, an AI research firm, Prometheus is being built in Ohio. Another one of its clusters, reportedly named Hyperion, is currently being built in Louisiana and is expected to go online in 2027.

good business for UPS vendors 

[SiliconWizard]

Interestingly, this unreasonable use of energy doesn't seem to raise any concern, so that probably means it's all safe and clean.

[nctnico]

Interestingly, this unreasonable use of energy doesn't seem to raise any concern, so that probably means it's all safe and clean.

Bitcoin? 

[paulca]

Interestingly, this unreasonable use of energy doesn't seem to raise any concern, so that probably means it's all safe and clean.

Bitcoin? 

Well if the proof of work was building vector databases for AI models....  might cancel out?

[tom66]

Oh, I'm sure this race to scale AI won't mean that electricity consumption goes through the roof far quicker than renewable energy can come online to support it, but whatever, it's a problem for "Future Us" and well, screw them, what have they done for us now?

[Stray Electron]

  If this is the one that they're talking about building in Pennsylvania then they announced about two months ago that they're going to restart one of the nuclear reactors at Three Mile Island and use that to power the data center.  The reactors there were shut down after the radiation release in the 1970s and have been in mothballs ever since.  The video footage in the news article showed the control room at Three Mile Island complete with 1970s vintage analog gauges and manual controls. When asked if the operators planned on updating the control to modern digital electronics with internet control they said no and that they were going to use the original controls and that the system would not be connected to the internet.

  The news here has also announced that Westinghouse is also planning on building ten new very large nuclear power plants in the US over the next ten years or so.