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Nvidia’s Blackwell cluster, which will come with eight GPUs, pulls down 15kW of power.
That’s 15,000 watts of power.
It even looks like a damned skull!
Divided by eight, that’s 1,875 watts per GPU.
One million Blackwell GPUs would suck down an astonishing 1.875 gigawatts of power.
For context, a typical nuclear power plant only produces 1 gigawatt of power.
It even looks like a damned skull!
Fossil fuel-burning plants, whether that’s natural gas, coal, or oil, produce even less.
It was damn near revolting.
That, ultimately, just isn’t Nvidia’s, orOpenAI’s, orGoogle’s problem.
One day, a digital human like this might be the one to empathetically tell you that you and your coworkers have all been laid off.
No, that will beyourproblem.
It’s for our own good, in the end.
Eventually, it will get itself sorted out.
At least these humanoid robots weren’t actually a low-paid actor in a robot suit dancing for their dinner.
Tragic that we have to go through it all though, but it can’t be helped.
Climate change will disrupt entire continents in ways impossible for us to understand, it’s simply too big.
Those people’s lives matter.
Their history, culture, and way of life matter.
It’s not unfortunate but inevitable what’s happening to them.
Further down the hierarchy of needs, people’s jobs matter.
Having purpose in our work matters, and being able to take care of our families matters.
We can’t even get the rich to pay the taxes they owenow.
The alternative is that they do not care, which is a far darker problem for the world.
