News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on AI's energy footprint. Parent comment

Re:AI's energy footprint by fakedang on Wednesday May 21, 2025 @12:19AM (#44048228)
> Something to temper this, lots of these AI datacenter projects are being cancelled or put on hiatus because the demand isnt there.

Wait, any sources for that? Because everywhere I go, there seems to be this hype for more AI data centers. Some fresh air would be nice.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:AI's energy footprint by protocolture on Wednesday May 21, 2025 @12:57AM (#44048423)
https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/microsoft-cancels...

AI seems like it is speedrunning all the phases of the hype cycle.

"TD Cowen analysts Michael Elias, Cooper Belanger, and Gregory Williams wrote in the latest research note: “We continue to believe the lease cancellations and deferrals of capacity points to data center oversupply relative to its current demand forecast.”"

[ Parent | on HN ]