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[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 111 points 16 hours ago (66 children)

This gets posted regularly on Lemmy, and while the economic take is tone-deaf at best, there's a real issue with generating more power than you can use. You can't just dump grid power


it needs to go somewhere. The grid needs to consume as much as it generates at all times or else bad things happen.

There are of course solutions, but that doesn't mean it's not an engineering challenge to implement.

Figuring out what to do with kilowatts is easy, but figuring out what to do with megawatts, at the drop of a hat, is substantially harder.

[–] pticrix@lemmy.ca 76 points 15 hours ago (6 children)

Peak energy production would be a good time to train the damn llms instead of building natural gas power plant I guess.

[–] youcantreadthis@quokk.au 5 points 12 hours ago

Yes but that would be woke soy and gay. You dont want to get gay woke soy in your ai. Thats against like the entire point of the thing!

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