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| ▲ | killerstorm an hour ago | parent | next [-] |
| A continuously running agent might require 100-500W for inference, so comparable to gaming or a small space heater. Not obscene, but also not negligible. If we assume 250W for a continuously running agent, Grok 4 training run estimate would be around 50 million session-days, so a half-million people might consume as much running agents continuously for 100 days. |
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| ▲ | roenxi an hour ago | parent [-] | | We might suspect the hardware used for the LLM is very similar to a graphics card and so the wattage would be extremely similar to using a graphics card to display a game's graphics in the first place. Which puts a certain ironic perspective on tokarf's original comment. |
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| ▲ | xbmcuser an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| if that was true tokens would be free |
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| ▲ | jstummbillig an hour ago | parent | prev [-] |
| "waste" All of a sudden we are selectively squeamish with computer resource usage, when we were fine having all that fun with computers and hardware, 3 monitor setups, using graphic cards to play games (dear lord!) and tinkering around with home rigs of every proportion and wattage for no reason at all. |
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| ▲ | killerstorm an hour ago | parent [-] | | Driving a car consumes 25+ more energy per hour than gaming. So urban planning which encourages people to drive likely results in an order of magnitude more waste than all home computer use. |
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