• deadcream@sopuli.xyz
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    7 hours ago

    They are not magic. You are still using electricity, and for the same amount of work that cloud providers do you will consume the same amount. If every one of the billions of people using chatgpt or whatever buys rtx 5090 and makes it churn 24/7 for their “local” ai then nothing will change for the environment.

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      4 hours ago

      But isn’t it as bad as running a graphically intensive AAA game on your computer

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        3 hours ago

        That’s still just moving the impact from data centers to end users’ machines.

        Gamers (especially those that own 5090) are a tiny minority compared to llm users.