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In total, power demand for proposed data centres currently listed by the Alberta Electric System Operator sits at 21.2 gigawatts per day — more than double the average electricity use for the entire province. And that figure doesn’t yet include the Synapse project.
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…and the Synapse project alone is expected to require as much power as all of Edmonton.
https://thenarwhal.ca/olds-alberta-ai-data-centre/
My personal experience so far: RAM is now really expensive, quality recipes and gardening advice by actual humans with souls is increasingly difficult to find, customer service is increasingly fraught and impersonal, media content is increasingly repulsive, and the once in a blue moon I attempt an AI shortcut I get a hallucination. I see the odd benefit as well, but day to day? Gross.