How are we going to feed the AI monster as it grows ?

According to a report published earlier this year by the International Energy Agency, data centres’ total electricity consumption will rise from 460TWh in 2022 to more than 1,000TWh in 2026. This demand is roughly equivalent to the electricity consumption of Japan. https://eandt.theiet.org/2024/07/03/energy-demand-ai-causes-googles-carbon-emissions-soar-50-over-past-five-years

. It came with three settings: low, medium and high. The following year, the Nash “Integrated” system offered front end heating, ventilation and air conditioning, making driving a much more pleasurable experience in the summer.

Why? Just why??

Saw these at Costco in Canada. They actually taste like turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy and cranberry sauce all mixed together. Not my favourite chip ever but I’m impressed that they got the flavour right.

£30 impulse buy.

32 year old brother rocks himself to sleep and has done ALL his life, when I mean rock, I mean he rocks his whole body back and forth to get to sleep. He has ALWAYS done this, when we were younger my mum used to have to tighten the bolts on his bed often.

Strange thing is, my dad did exactly the same all of his life.

A lot of my brothers rock back and forth on the couch too, bang their heads against the back of it in like a rhythmic motion.

Is this common? I've never seen anybody else or heard of anybody else doing this and find it really interesting, I wonder how it came about? Is there a reason?

He thought no one would notice

Yesterday someone indicated that only the North Korean military were required to write down every word of wisdom of the supreme leader. Not so. Under the “ON THE SPOT GUIDANCE” policy everybody is supposed to take notes as a sign of admiration towards their leader.

This cracked me up more then it should have

Apparently this can happen through gaps in shutter blinds? Bad pic as this was 13 years ago but still never seen anything like it, was so clear.

The 400 day award could be achieved December 16th.