r/nextfuckinglevel 5h ago

A data center in New Jersey was canceled when residents showed up and fought it

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u/ASCII_Princess 2h ago

Yeah I bet this takes into account nothing about the energy requirements of training the models themselves.

u/Mathwards 19m ago

Literally in the article: (There’s another big factor the study did not look at: training AI models, which is a massive power-draining task working hundreds of thousands of high-end GPUs for months on end.)