It's not hard to imagine Denmark and many other countries following in the footsteps of Ireland, whose 2025 framework demands new datacenters over 10 MW to have their own power generation, be capable of feeding excess power back to the grid, and produce 80% of their annual demand from renewable sources.
All told, Denmark joins the Netherlands, Ireland, Singapore, Germany's Frankfurt district, and the USA's Maine, New York, South Dakota, Oklahoma, Maryland, and Virginia in attempting to contain the consequences of unfettered AI datacenter buildouts. In the meantime, Digital Realty's Pernille Hoffmann puts it plainly, stating that whether for Denmark or the Nordic region, should the grid capacity requirements not be met, AI players will be forced to "move [their workloads] somewhere else."
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blitzkrieg316 Guess windmills and solar are not sufficient… like we said… Reply
Arkitekt78 A case study on when new FOMO is reliant on the last FOMO… and on and on. Reply
Shiznizzle China is gonna win the AI race. Any doubts? In 18 months they ditched their reliance on US chips and switched to domestic ones. What they lack in throughput they can make up with numbers. They have the GW to power their chips. This publication stated that last year china brought over 600 GW of power online. Just in the last year. While the US is dogged down in local opposition to data centers, china ploughs on. Lets hope they win the race soon so the rest of the world can start buying RAM again and this madness ends I love the fact that some small town in the US chucked out their elected officials after they went against the will of the people who said no to a new data center. Fear the people. That is good. They are now going after the remaining town officials who voted for the data center. Reply
church_of_bacon Shiznizzle said: China is gonna win the AI race. Any doubts? In 18 months they ditched their reliance on US chips and switched to domestic ones. What they lack in throughput they can make up with numbers. They have the GW to power their chips. This publication stated that last year china brought over 600 GW of power online. Just in the last year. While the US is dogged down in local opposition to data centers, china ploughs on. Lets hope they win the race soon so the rest of the world can start buying RAM again and this madness ends I love the fact that some small town in the US chucked out their elected officials after they went against the will of the people who said no to a new data center. Fear the people. That is good. They are now going after the remaining town officials who voted for the data center. I've been puzzled for a while as to how the vast majority of AI companies are going to break even or even turn a profit long term. With all the energy and building costs involved and relatively short useful lifespan of high end chips, there really don't seem to be a lot of ways to make a good return on it especially when there are hundreds of companies trying to capitalize on basically the same product groups. Reply
anoldnewb blitzkrieg316 said: Guess windmills and solar are not sufficient… like we said… blitzkrieg316 said: Guess windmills and solar are not sufficient… like we said… So coal, nuclear or gas is the simple solution? The largest steam turbine is 1.75 GW so 34 new turbines would be needed to supply the data centers Maybe Denmark does not want its other users to have to pay for all the new generating capacity. Reply
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