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I watched Nvidia's Computex 2024 keynote and it made my blood run cold

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Nvidia's pre-Computex keynote address was certainly something, and none of it felt good.

I watched Nvidia's Computex 2024 keynote and it made my blood run cold

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.

Fossil fuel-burning plants, whether that's natural gas, coal, or oil, produce even less. There's no way to ramp up nuclear capacity in the time it will take to supply these millions of chips, so much, if not all, of that extra power demand is going to come from carbon-emitting sources.

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