cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/21370783
On Monday, Mayor Patrick Collins of Cheyenne, Wyoming, announced plans for an AI data center that would consume more electricity than all homes in the state combined, according to The Associated Press. The facility, a joint venture between energy infrastructure company Tallgrass and AI data center developer Crusoe, would start at 1.8 gigawatts and scale up to 10 gigawatts of power use.
The project’s energy demands are difficult to overstate for Wyoming, the least populous US state. The initial 1.8-gigawatt phase, consuming 15.8 terawatt-hours (TWh) annually, is more than five times the electricity used by every household in the state combined. That figure represents 91 percent of the 17.3 TWh currently consumed by all of Wyoming’s residential, commercial, and industrial sectors combined. At its full 10-gigawatt capacity, the proposed data center would consume 87.6 TWh of electricity annually—double the 43.2 TWh the entire state currently generates.
Because drawing this much power from the public grid is untenable, the project will rely on its own dedicated gas generation and renewable energy sources, according to Collins and company officials. However, this massive local demand for electricity—even if self-generated—represents a fundamental shift for a state that currently sends nearly 60 percent of its generated power to other states.
Wyoming Governor Mark Gordon praised the project’s potential benefits for the state’s natural gas industry in a company statement. “This is exciting news for Wyoming and for Wyoming natural gas producers,” Gordon said.
The proposed site for the new data center sits several miles south of Cheyenne near the Colorado border off US Route 85. While state and local regulators still need to approve the project, Collins expressed optimism about a quick start. “I believe their plans are to go sooner rather than later,” he said.
This is what the rich do after 50 years of siphoning 70 Trillion from working class people.
They will waste more electricity than all other humans combined in an attempt to automate fascism through AI.
Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives
Or maybe they want to create something cool like the phone/pc📱 you are currently typing on??
As a Coder myself I would even donate money to this project.
What should be worrying you is religious ppl and their idiocy. Remember they used to burn sapphics like us. They have contributed NOTHING good to this world either.
Knowledge and technology will set us free oneday. There’s already an HIV and Cancer vaccine after AI has been released. Coincidence? I think not.
The telephone was new technology.
Marketing teams pushing Machine Learning algorithms that have existed since the 90s is not new in any way
Productivity will go up. Things that took me days now take me seconds. This is for the good of humanity. We are on the brink of creating synthetic life from scratch. LLMs have already found new antibiotics for antibiotic resistant infections. It can already read X-rays better than the human eye can. We are solving biological and mathematical problems that used to take us decades. AI is the obvious next step in human evolution. We may even solve animal language soon.
I am excited!
AI is solving all my problems so far… including my panic disorder, so it has saved me.
You have no idea what you are talking about.
Seek therapy or some kind of religion to get what you are seeking from 30 year old Machine Learning algorithms
They really can’t even see that how they view and talk about AI is almost identical to how people idealize finding god and worship. They’ve already fully replaced one for another.
Yes I do worship science. It did save me. It’s already saving lives. Unlike you and god who did nothing for humanity.
I’m using therapy in conjunction with AI… Are you in therapy? You seem to think everything is a conspiracy made by the rich man. Paranoid delusions perhaps? Are vaccines poison too?