RE: Gas pipeline justification28 Jan 2025 10:11
While I am sure DeepSeek has some lessons to learn for the incumbent US AI companies and once this has been learned the demand will still be massive, if I think about (and I would class myself as an average user) the potential future load from AI queries I believe today we are only around 2-3% possibly of the load. In 5 years time I think AI queries will grow 50 fold, don't just think about your queries think about devices where queries are integral to doing so many things in the background to make your life more straightforward, this will be the real load of AI an it hasn't even started yet.
So in answer to your question, while DeepSeek is more efficient certainly is not the case that it doesn't 'cost anything' by a long shot, so I think the plans for Data Centers will continue as the big US players look to be part of the future of computing :-)