• deadcream@sopuli.xyz
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    2 months ago

    They are not magic. You are still using electricity, and for the same amount of work that cloud providers do you will consume the same amount. If every one of the billions of people using chatgpt or whatever buys rtx 5090 and makes it churn 24/7 for their “local” ai then nothing will change for the environment.

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      2 months ago

      no you won’t, datacenters inherently use far more electricity because they need enormous and intensive water cooling systems to cool the equipment

      99% of consumer gpus, even the high end, are air cooled with tiny fans