According to the most recent Angus-Reid polling, two thirds of Canadians want their provincial government to place restrictions on the data-centre buildout.
Shrinking demand for LLMs? What planet are you living on?
If you look at OpenRouter’s history back a year you can see the massive explosion in inference tokens consumed.
https://openrouter.ai/rankings?view=month#top-models
Obviously that’s not a perfect representation of the entire market given that the major companies also provide their own inference, but it’s the largest public view of usage and is likely extremely representative of what’s going on behind the scenes.
The only thing holding more organizations back from using even more inference is cost, so any sort of “pop” is just going to immediately be eaten up by increased usage at slightly lower prices.
Will a bunch of investors lose their shirts? Absolutely, but there is no lack of demand for datacenters right now.
AI currently (as of a month ago) only uses about 0.5% of total global energy. It’s not as big of a threat to the environment as you seem to think it is.
Not to mention that the 2, 3, and 4 are failures by your government. My local government doesn’t have those issues because they properly regulated datacenters already.
New datacenters here have to bid for specific limited available power blocks yearly when the utility determines how much will be available to their use, they also can’t be built with evaporative cooling anymore, and… 4 doesn’t apply because we don’t use evaporative cooling anymore.
It’s fucking hilarious that the US is allowing datacenters to be build with evaporative water cooling in the middle of fucking deserts and/or drought regions. Stop being idiots.
I dont know why you have to lie. It is 1.5% officially but my guess is 3% at least. Which is huge. 2,3,4 already a problem in some parts of USA and you I wrote about future problems. Maybe your gov is able to offload 2, 3, 4 to the nature but it is not your gov beinf smart, it is harming my home, my life and for what for useless pet projects and useless media
The cost is increasing as providers are incredibly far off from the profit promises they gave investors. An estimated 6 trillion in productivity is required for the investments to break even, and the reality is things are way off the mark.
Shrinking demand for LLMs? What planet are you living on?
If you look at OpenRouter’s history back a year you can see the massive explosion in inference tokens consumed. https://openrouter.ai/rankings?view=month#top-models Obviously that’s not a perfect representation of the entire market given that the major companies also provide their own inference, but it’s the largest public view of usage and is likely extremely representative of what’s going on behind the scenes.
The only thing holding more organizations back from using even more inference is cost, so any sort of “pop” is just going to immediately be eaten up by increased usage at slightly lower prices.
Will a bunch of investors lose their shirts? Absolutely, but there is no lack of demand for datacenters right now.
Lets see how that plays out with increasing prices of electricity, cooling systems, fresh water.
Next year will be full of surprises:
AI efficiency has to double at least to be viable at that point
AI currently (as of a month ago) only uses about 0.5% of total global energy. It’s not as big of a threat to the environment as you seem to think it is.
Not to mention that the 2, 3, and 4 are failures by your government. My local government doesn’t have those issues because they properly regulated datacenters already.
New datacenters here have to bid for specific limited available power blocks yearly when the utility determines how much will be available to their use, they also can’t be built with evaporative cooling anymore, and… 4 doesn’t apply because we don’t use evaporative cooling anymore.
It’s fucking hilarious that the US is allowing datacenters to be build with evaporative water cooling in the middle of fucking deserts and/or drought regions. Stop being idiots.
I dont know why you have to lie. It is 1.5% officially but my guess is 3% at least. Which is huge. 2,3,4 already a problem in some parts of USA and you I wrote about future problems. Maybe your gov is able to offload 2, 3, 4 to the nature but it is not your gov beinf smart, it is harming my home, my life and for what for useless pet projects and useless media
Nope, it’s not. You’re counting “electricity usage” not energy usage.
Those are not the same thing.
And keep in mind. Grids need cooling, people need more ac, data centers need more ac, fresh water needs electricity. It is just going to snowball
The cost is increasing as providers are incredibly far off from the profit promises they gave investors. An estimated 6 trillion in productivity is required for the investments to break even, and the reality is things are way off the mark.
https://futurism.com/future-society/data-centers-trillion-capital-time-bomb-bain
Add to that serious problems measuring ROI, public backlash, CEO cynicism.
That planet.
That’s not shrinking demand. That’s stupid investors. Those are not the same thing.
Ceos are turning sour as ability measure ROI has proven elusive. Also, the above implies a slow increase to prices which is already happening.