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Zuckerberg says Meta will build data center "the size of Manhattan" in latest AI push (www.theguardian.com)
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Mark Zuckerberg proclaimed that Meta would spend hundreds of billions of dollars on developing artificial intelligence products in the near future and, to that end, construct a data center planned to be nearly the size of Manhattan.

The parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp is among the large tech companies that have struck high-profile deals, and doled out multimillion-dollar pay packages to AI researchers in recent months – some as high as $100m – to fast-track work on machines that could outthink humans on many tasks, a concept known as “super-intelligence” or “artificial general intelligence”.

Its first multi-gigawatt data center, dubbed Prometheus, is expected to come online in 2026, while another, called Hyperion, will be able to scale up to 5 gigawatts over the coming years, Zuckerberg said.

“We’re building multiple more titan clusters as well. Just one of these covers a significant part of the footprint of Manhattan,” the billionaire CEO said.

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[–] Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 29 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Three Gorges dam produces 22 GW, just for comparison.

Even one terawatt would be a ridiculous amount of energy.

[–] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 25 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I totally knew why that specific Dam was relevant, but for those lemmings that don't, the Three Gorges Dam is the largest power plant in the world.

[–] rainwall@piefed.social 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Another comparison is that a "standard" US reactor will output 1GW of power at steady state.

This data center would require 7000 nuclear reactors, just for it. The US current has 98 active reactors.

We are a ways away.

[–] Mirshe@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

Even fusion reactor theoretical outputs (if we manage to crack fusion) are still basically in the GW range. Terawatts of power is science fiction.

[–] SuiXi3D@fedia.io 6 points 7 months ago

I’m imagining server racks lit by candlelight.

[–] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 3 points 7 months ago

Also for comparison, in 2005 the US consumed on average 3.34 Terrawatts of power from all sources (not just electricity). In 2022, the world consumed on average 20.4 Terrawatts from all sources.

US energy consumption has stayed pretty flat since 2000 (surprisingly), so a 7 Terrawatt facility would triple US power consumption, and be over a third of all power used by all humans.

Completely ridiculous.