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Sam Altman Absolutely Hates the Idea of People Running Their Own AI Models at Home, Argues They Shouldn’t Own Computers: He'd prefer if we surrender all our RAM to data centers. (futurism.com)
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[–] 19 points 1 week ago (7 children)

It's way less thermally efficient though... Individual computers in people's houses running lighter workloads don't get as hot, and when they do, they don't need to stay operating for as long: they can just shut down or slow down after the heavy workload, or finish it more slowly. So they don't need as much cooling, and will produce less waste heat due to the temperature coefficient of resistance.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    So they don’t need as much cooling, and will produce less waste heat due to the temperature coefficient of resistance.

    And honestly in areas with colder year-round climates, the increase in ambient temps from running locally might actually reduce heating bills because it's technically doing double duty of doing a job and heating the place.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago*

    Sheesh! One unit of computing =one unit of heat. The total units of computing are the same, the concentration differs. Thermodynamics, dude!

    Ignorance is not bad, it can be reversed. It's confident ignorance like yours that scares me.

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