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PC upgrade woes (edited to obscure AI) (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/aboringdystopia@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/42490856

Obligatory damn clankers.

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[–] 4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Electricity bills have already been increasing heavily around AI datacenters. I read an article about a place in the Netherlands where they can't build any more houses at the moment because they're building a datacenter that is going to take that electricity.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago* (1 child)

    Aside from driving profits through demand for LLM use, these data centers are an environmental disaster.

    The scale of these facilities is insane. A flagship LLM model can require around 1 TB of RAM to run effectively. A mid-tier model may need roughly 140 GB. In contrast, a top-end gaming PC typically needs 64 GB at most, and the vast majority of systems function perfectly well with 16 GB.

    I was simply pointing out that these massive data centers exist because that demand exists.

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