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Climate goals go up in smoke as US datacenters turn to coal (www.theregister.com)
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[–] -2 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

That article doesn't say what you imply it does. Companies may be using ChatGPT to grow, but that doesn't mean they are training AIs.

And the distinction is critical to energy usage. Training a new AI uses a lot of energy. Querying an existing AI uses far less.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Companies may be using ChatGPT to grow, but that doesn’t mean they are training AIs.

    It's the MAG7 that's driving growth. And they're all fixated on training AI in some capacity

    Training a new AI uses a lot of energy. Querying an existing AI uses far less.

    It costs $5 for each 10s video generation, based on Azure's published rates for the first Sora model.

    That's presumably a lot of energy.

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago

    The MAG7 operate large and growing cloud services, so their datacenter costs would grow even without any AI training.

    And charging $5 for a video query does not mean the query uses $5 of energy. The query is priced to recoup training costs that were already incurred.

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