AI helps lighten the load on the electric grid – without skimping on people’s energy use. - eviltoast
  • over_clox@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Plus absolutely no mention of how much energy the Merlin AI servers will consume, when AI server farms are known to consume enough energy to power a village or small city…

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      3 months ago

      This, too. With some numbers they could even reason “look, this system demands X% energy, but you’re predicted to economise Y% in the long run, and Y > X”. But there’s nothing like that in the text.