Halfy! on Nostr: I think the most regrettable thing about AI is how the resource requirements quickly ...
I think the most regrettable thing about AI is how the resource requirements quickly became abstracted behind datacenters.
It costs so much power (and therefore emissions) to run, but because we now fire these requests off to AWS / Google Cloud we don't see the damage we are doing.
Goes for regular workloads too, but x1000
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c51yvz51k2xoPublished at
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