Thanks! I edited my thing on energy to clarify, I’m mostly interested in the price of energy for powering large neural nets, and secondarily interested in the price of energy in general in the USA, and only somewhat interested in the price of energy worldwide.
I am not convinced yet that the increased demand from AI will result in increased prices. In fact I think the opposite might happen. Solar panels are basically indefinitely scalable; there are large tracts of empty sunny land in which you can just keep adding more panels basically indefinitely. And transporting the energy to other places won’t be an issue for AI because the datacenters can be built right where the solar panels are. If storing energy is a problem, just do your AI training runs during the day when energy is plentiful. So I predict that AI-related demand for energy will mostly just result in vastly increased supply, rather than increased prices—but when supply increases, economies of scale will result, that may even drive the price lower!
The point about metals is new to me, I’ll go read up on that, thanks. For some reason your link seems to be broken.
Thanks for the clarifications! I realized that maybe you are mostly interested on the tech sector in the US and AI-related development, which explains also why you didn’t think of biomedical research immediately. Is this impression correct? If so, you might want to edit further the question to restrict the range of answers.
I fixed the link, I didn’t notice but it had taken the ) as part of the address.
BTW, I read your post on military tech in the meantime, it was interesting.
It’s true that that’s what I’m mostly interested in, but I don’t want to restrict the question to that stuff—I asked this question so I could learn more things! Please don’t hesitate to answer with biotech stuff or non-US stuff or non-tech stuff!
Thanks! I edited my thing on energy to clarify, I’m mostly interested in the price of energy for powering large neural nets, and secondarily interested in the price of energy in general in the USA, and only somewhat interested in the price of energy worldwide.
I am not convinced yet that the increased demand from AI will result in increased prices. In fact I think the opposite might happen. Solar panels are basically indefinitely scalable; there are large tracts of empty sunny land in which you can just keep adding more panels basically indefinitely. And transporting the energy to other places won’t be an issue for AI because the datacenters can be built right where the solar panels are. If storing energy is a problem, just do your AI training runs during the day when energy is plentiful. So I predict that AI-related demand for energy will mostly just result in vastly increased supply, rather than increased prices—but when supply increases, economies of scale will result, that may even drive the price lower!
The point about metals is new to me, I’ll go read up on that, thanks. For some reason your link seems to be broken.
Thanks for the clarifications! I realized that maybe you are mostly interested on the tech sector in the US and AI-related development, which explains also why you didn’t think of biomedical research immediately. Is this impression correct? If so, you might want to edit further the question to restrict the range of answers.
I fixed the link, I didn’t notice but it had taken the ) as part of the address.
BTW, I read your post on military tech in the meantime, it was interesting.
It’s true that that’s what I’m mostly interested in, but I don’t want to restrict the question to that stuff—I asked this question so I could learn more things! Please don’t hesitate to answer with biotech stuff or non-US stuff or non-tech stuff!
Thanks!