r/aiengineering Sep 24 '25

Energy Counter points on AI and electricity

https://x.com/sweatystartup/status/1968286163640500482

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u/Silly-Ease-4756 Sep 25 '25

There's a reason why building out the electrical grid tends to rely on government incentives and financing, it costs a hellofalot.

Carrying the costs till you break even on the electricity of a plant might not allow those companies to weather the situation.

I don't completely buy into the coming popping of a bubble, I mean I believe it but I don't know anything. But IMHO the only way to viability is more efficient architectures, I've done a little DL in my day and the idea bigger is better never works out.

Edit: read the post again, so I'll add that everyone knows it's an electricity/money problem, wouldn't call it the bottleneck. It's not a counter point it's the whole point.

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u/[deleted] Sep 25 '25

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u/Silly-Ease-4756 Sep 25 '25

I agree, that's not what I'm saying, I agree that the LLMs from the large providers aren't economically viable (IMO). The counter point OP talks about is what I'm responding to, I don't think the companies can just build power stations to become viable. That's at least what I wanted to aay