That's quite the catch, but in a world where AI buildouts and data center growth are putting unprecedented strain on global energy supply, a future process that could reduce AI image generation energy usage by a factor of ten billion would certainly be a breakthrough.
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DS426 Major datacenters should also be their own power plants, essentially using heat pumps to turn steam turbines to turn generators. It boggles my mind that the wealthiest and most hi-tech companies in the world throw away heat (and often) water with little to no recapture. Reply
JRStern DS426 said: Major datacenters should also be their own power plants, essentially using heat pumps to turn steam turbines to turn generators. It boggles my mind that the wealthiest and most hi-tech companies in the world throw away heat (and often) water with little to no recapture. They throw away a lot of heat but it's at low temperatures and that's very hard to recapture efficiently, you can't really boil water with it, you might boil some ammonia if you can cool the ammonia enough in the first place, or design some big honkin' Sterling engine with a boosted cooling cycle … that would be awesome. Would it ever pay for itself? Dubious. Reply
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