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Sam Altman wants up to $7 trillion for AI chips. The natural resources required would be ‘mind boggling’
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's efforts to boost AI chip capacity would require an 'astronomical' quantity of water and rare earth minerals.
Yesterday the Wall Street Journal reported that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman wants to raise up to $7 trillion for a “wildly-ambitious” tech project to boost the world’s chip capacity, funded by investors including the U.A.E. While this may simply be a dreamy moonshot on Altman’s part, or an Elon Musk-like hype-generator, what is not in doubt is the environmental impact of such a massive effort, according to Sasha Luccioni, climate lead and researcher at Hugging Face. Last summer, VentureBeat reported on how access to Nvidia’s hard-to-come-by, ultra-expensive, high-performance computing H100 GPU for large language model (LLM) training was becoming the “top gossip” of Silicon Valley.
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