I hope to see a paper analyzing the GHG impact of space-based LLMs. It may actually be better than on Earth...

Thanks for putting together a workflow for concrete and steel. I know you put a lot of effort into concrete in particular. Lots of hard work 👍🏼

For example a GPT3 level model can probably run on a phone now. That would have taken a datacenter about 3 years back.

LLM datacenters will probably reside in space according to many tech folks (Musk, Wong, Bezos, etc). Cooling is a non-issue, along with solar availability in space. Lasers will link them all together.

Also, I monitor the math behind LLMs every day. Efficiency is rising drastically as well.

Nuclear pundits never seem to wonder where their fuel comes from. Surprise, it's the world's largest terrorist regime. But that doesn't seem to set their nuclear ideology back much.

To be fair, most solar panels come from slave'ish labor in China, but the big difference is it's not fuel.

Once again, in 90% of California centralized electricity of any type can't compete with VRE because the infrastructure to distribute the electricity alone is more expensive than VRE + batteries in most situations.

By the time you pour the concrete you're already more expensive than VRE.

Even better get rooftop solar. My costs are pretty solid at 5 cents/kWh (including 1 inverter replacement). I should be locked for another 15 years!

Your excess electricity goes to green your entire neighborhood.

In off-grid situations with little VRE (no clear line to sunlight) FF is still necessary

This is why we need incentives for communities to share VRE and batteries

Having dealt with mountain communities it's a hard sell to "trust" neighbors. Community RE needs to be legally ironclad and enforceable