Comment by bushbaba
9 hours ago
Not just compute but energy. Most of Europe has no access to the cost effective power generation needed
9 hours ago
Not just compute but energy. Most of Europe has no access to the cost effective power generation needed
Build Nuclear, Build Thorium the Chinese are building whatever they can. They’re not locked in by special interest. Is that because they have lots of engineers on the job in government?
Training location is flexible. Iceland?
Europe has lots of zero-cost windows for electricity, and areas with cheap prices. The real issue is access to oil and gas.
Maybe for training big models one can wait for times when the wind is blowing.
There are worse ideas.
I could imagine a belt of data centres around the equator, that hand off their computational loads as the sun sets. Good scifi-esque premise.
That does not really sound practical to let datacenters costing billions idle half the time.
France is actually pretty cheap in Europe. About 15% more than average USA electric prices (but I know that varies a lot across the states so still likely much more than the cheaper areas)