AI’s voracious need for computing power is threatening to overwhelm energy sources, requiring the industry to change its approach to the technology, according to Arm Holdings Plc Chief Executive Officer Rene Haas.

AI’s voracious need for computing power is threatening to overwhelm energy sources, requiring the industry to change its approach to the technology, according to Arm Holdings Plc Chief Executive Officer Rene Haas.

  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 months ago

    AWS has like 2 million businesses as customers.

    None of them hold a candle to the Wild and Stormy Cloud Computing contact issued by the NSA.

    • crispyflagstones@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      7 months ago

      I don’t like defending Amazon, but your arguments are shockingly ignorant. Stop making things up on the spot and do a shred of research. The cost of the Wild and Stormy contract is ~half a billion, while AWS’s annual revenues are projected to top $100 billion this year.

      So, less than half a percent of AWS’s annual revenues. Stop just making shit up off the cuff.

        • crispyflagstones@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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          6 months ago

          If you do the numbers out on that, the volume doubles to 1% of gross revenues over that time period. Not really bolstering the point you were trying to make here, but you did catch me merely skimming the article because of how dull and bad this conversation is. This conversation is pointless because at the end of the day, AI is literally just a potentially very useful tool, which is why everybody’s freaking out about it. Being against AI as such just because bad people are also using it is kind of pointless.

          • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            6 months ago

            the volume doubles to 1% of gross revenues

            One contract from one state agency worth 1% of all your gross revenues is substantial.

            you did catch me merely skimming the article because of how dull and bad this conversation is

            Uh huh. Okay.

            • crispyflagstones@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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              6 months ago

              Yeah, you were trying to argue AWS is basically for the NSA and cops. That hilariously false claim is what I’ve been consistently rebutting this entire time. You’re moving the goalposts and continuously have this entire conversation, which is why this is a dull and bad conversation. You didn’t start out arguing that 1% is “substantial.” You made a rather different argument. I never disputed that a contract amounting to 1% of a company’s annual revenues is significant, I disputed that that 1% means AWS is just a cop shop. Because that’s not how anything works.

              You were wrong, and you were making shit up, and you’re moving the goalposts to avoid having to admit being wrong.

              • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
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                6 months ago

                My guy, you’re arguing with yourself at this point. At the least, learn to read your own material before you try to fact check someone.