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worik 2 hours ago

I think you miss the point, I looked at that Substack, it is way off point

It is the training of models, is it not, that requires huge quantities of electricity. Already driving up prices for consumers.

OpenAI (that name is Orwellian) wants 25GW over five years, if memory serves. That is not for powering ChatGPT queries

Also the huge waste of gazillion of dollars spent on computer gear (in data centres) that will probably depreciate to zero in less than five years.

This is a useful technology, but a whole lot of greed heads are riding it to their doom. I hope they do not take us on their ride

cm2012 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Its still a small portion of the total energy use and already powering a lot of things. And to compare other uses accurately, you'd also have to consider the cost of creating those things (like creating a full tv show, or car manufacturing, etc).