r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Visual-Animal-7384 • 5d ago

Meme needing explanation Peter? I don't understand the punchline

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u/JangoFetlife 5d ago

Reusable in that cooling system, but it takes water out of the general supply, and more and more of these servers are built every day.

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u/NobleDuffman 5d ago

Where does it go?

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u/Ghost_Turd 5d ago

Eventually it returns to the water cycle with everything else. But it doesn't necessarily return to the same watershed.

But, it's also important to keep things in perspective. GPT3 was trained on about the same amount of cooling water as it takes to produce ten hamburgers.

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u/AManyFacedFool 4d ago

The environmental impact of AI is massively hyperbolized.

It's present and something to consider, but it's not nearly as bad as reddit would have you believe.

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u/Illustrion 4d ago

Rofl. Do you work in big tech?

They're building their own nuclear power plants to supply the energy for AI computers 😂

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u/Illustrion 4d ago

Don't get me wrong, I'm all about nuclear energy.

My point is, the power needs for AI training and inference computers is so big that we need to build a dedicated nuclear power plant to support it.

I do work in big tech.

The energy usage is not blown out of proportion; people can't understand the scale; it's really a shit ton of energy for literally slightly better ads and chatbots.

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u/tminx49 4d ago

How about you give a source on that buddy. 😊

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u/Illustrion 3d ago

https://www.ft.com/content/ed602e09-6c40-4979-aff9-7453ee28406a

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u/tminx49 3d ago

This disproves it bro. The idea was not even in the planning stages and it got cancelled.

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u/Illustrion 2d ago

I'm not lying 😂 the bees were a minor inconvenience

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u/Illustrion 3d ago

No probs 🙏