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August 11, 2024

Datacenters powered by solar farms

 What do you think about this business idea?

  • Find cheap unused land with high sun exposure (e.g. desert areas)
  • Build there solar farms and datacenters (for AI/LLM inference; using either ASICs for high energy efficiency or GPUs)
  • Use solar to power these datacenters (essentially free energy)
  • Charge per token, or potentially future auction bidding (pay more for higher intelligence access)
  • Latency of distant locations may not be an issue… intelligence processing usually takes time anyway + Starlink can handle it
  • My opinion: demand for intelligence (AI/LLM inference, compute) will grow in coming years, as will energy demand. Possibly more demand than supply.
  • Some actors will pay a premium for intelligence as their use case/business justifies it.
  • Cutting-edge LLMs (e.g. GPT-10..) might stay closed, available only via developers. These models will be sought after as they’ll outperform others – for some use cases, it’s worth the price (privacy loss, dependency, etc.)

Comments

  • I love this idea – do you want to do it? Also, we could use open source LLMs like Llama or DeepSeek

    Replies
    • Thanks! I would use DeepSeek at this moment, but in general I would be agnostic, and always use what’s best (things will be changing rapidly…)

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I have always been driven by the need to create — games, AI agents, ideas. That’s why I started Keen Software House: to create games that only existed in my head. After Space Engineers took off, I founded GoodAI to develop AGI, to help humanity and understand the universe.

These days I’m focused on Space Engineers 2, the VRAGE3 engine, AI People, and autonomous agents in general — powering NPCs in our games, or swarms of autonomous and intelligent drones.

It’s all part of my long-term plan: to make civilization stronger, greater, and more resilient.

Our home base is a 17th-century Oranžérie in Prague — but we’re a remote-first, global team of 100+ programmers, artists, designers, and engineers.

I am proudly European , and in the last few years, I’ve come to love South Africa and its people.

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