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Re:Rob Pike Goes Nuclear over GenAI by mikojan on Friday December 26, 2025 @11:18AM (#46393450)
OpenAI's internal target of ~250 GW of compute capacity by 2033 would require about as much electricity as the whole of India's current national electricity consumption[0].

[0]: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intell...

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Re:Rob Pike Goes Nuclear over GenAI by wpm on Friday December 26, 2025 @01:07PM (#46394509)
My favorite factoid is that the most energetic power production facility on the planet is the Three Gorges Dam, with a nameplate capacity of 22.5GW.

That dam took 10 years to build and cost $30B.

And OpenAI needs more than ten of them in 7 years.

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