▲ | leecarraher 2 days ago | |
On the surface, cutting less essential resources during a power supply event makes sense, the ranking of essentialness seems problematic. While the decision to stop dumping megawatts of power to train a companies next gen LLM to be used for life saving/sustaining systems makes sense, it's pretty hard to implement in all but the most extreme cases. Hospital vs gpt6 training is an easy decision, but what about deciding between someone who wants to run AC at their unoccupied home vs. cutting power to a multi-day training epoch worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. It all feels very un-capitalistic, which in the US, like it or not, is how many edge cases get resolved. Right now datacenters are just the easy target, but why not Texas' numerous fracking sites, or other less desirable industries. My guess is that an injunction on the constitutionality of this will hold it up in court for a while. |