Nobody wants 5 tits. If Total Recall taught us anything it's that 3 tits is where it's at 👍

Okay not just AI but in general most business uses should be lowest on the electricity priority list

Before telling people to raise their AC to relieve pressure on the power grid, AI data centers should be shut down, most offices should be closed and powered down, etc.

The very last electric appliances to be turned off should be residential AC units. Basically everything else should go before those.

The very last electric appliances to be turned off should be residential AC units
I don't think a mostly for-comfort utility should be the last to shut down. There is a lot of significantly more important shit, like hospitals, water treatment plants and pumping stations, coolers and freezers which are storing food, public transit, etc.
After all, our species has survived without AC for hundreds of thousands of years, but surviving without running water or safe food is much more difficult.
Even some datacenters can be more important, e.g. those predicting the weather or handling communications.
And if AC is necessary for survival in a place, then maybe we shouldn't fuckin' settle there (or at least shouldn't cover the entire place with asphalt and concrete). What happens during a real blackout? Does everyone just die?
- After all, our species has survived without AC for hundreds of thousands of years
  Other things our species survived without for hundreds of thousands of years include water purification, cancer treatment, obstetrics, antibiotics, sterile medical instruments, and agriculture.
- I don't think a mostly for-comfort utility should be the last to shut down.
  at-risk people die without A/C when it's 100F and 95% humidity.
  And if AC is necessary for survival in a place, then maybe we shouldn't fuckin' settle there (or at least shouldn't cover the entire place with asphalt and concrete).
  People settled there because A/C became available. You can't just shut off the A/C and cackle while the elderly and infirm die of heat stroke.
  What happens during a real blackout? Does everyone just die?
  people do pretty much every time it happens due to hurricanes in Texas, yes.
- After all, our species has survived without AC for hundreds of thousands of years,
  What's climate change
- a mostly for-comfort utility
  that mostly is doing a lot of heavy lifting
  https://fordhaminstitute.org/national/commentary/how-school-hvac-systems-affect-learning
  https://www.edweek.org/leadership/as-the-temperature-climbs-test-scores-drop-in-schools-without-air-conditioning/2018/05
  https://www.nber.org/digest/aug18/hotter-school-days-less-learning-unless-theres-ac
- Obviously I’m oversimplifying to an extent. There are obviously essential services that should be prioritized over residential areas, but my point is that most business uses should be lower priority than residential.
  Also AC saves lives. Every time there’s a big blackout during a heatwave people die. Especially the elderly.
  I agree that we shouldn’t have people living in those places, Texas and Florida should be permanently evacuated. But currently people do live there and I’d rather they not die.

One of the more underreported topics regarding 'AI' is the massive amount of power they consume.

I work for an electric utility that a few years ago was in talks of having another merger, just a couple years after the last, to give an idea of how thin things were.

Now? Said company will be adding gigawatts of additional generation over the next 5-10 years, multiple new large plants, almost solely because of this phenomena. Population growth has been static in this region, and no major plants have been shuttered, the growth is almost solely due to this crap.

But see, that's just the market forces building the infrastructure like they're supposed to.

And in a couple years when someone drives a truck full of ANFO into the datacenter and turns it into a crater the size of Rhode Island, that'll just be the market forces correcting themselves and then we just won't need to have rolling brownouts, right?

uh actually i do want quintuple-breasted uncanny valley waifus and ecological devastation tyvm

why can't I have no tits and 5 environment?

I'll settle for 2 (two) small tits and many environment. Actually, I already have the tits so I really just need the environment.

Nobody wants 5 tits

#BrownOutsForAll

"I assumed this meant more racist deportations! Now I can't power my gooncave with 18 monitors showing an endless stream of AI hallucinations of five-breasted women!"

So is this still going off the vague estimate given my a google exec regarding AI power usage compared to a search engine that was reported on and then cited over and over again? I’m no fan of AI slop but the power usage of industrial shit is massive compared to a bank of GPUs roleplaying as waifus.

MONOBOOB

Gonna stick my neck out here (in response to some of the replies I'm seeing) but there's nothing wrong with having your air conditioning at 27°C (unless you have some very particular health condition I guess?) and if we were to do things right as a society, that would probably mean rationing resources like AC so that everyone could have access to them

before Total Recall there was Eccentrica Gallumbits! The far famed triple breasted whore of Eroticon 6! had to draw the pics myself though