• NateNate60@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    Megawatts to serve hundreds of thousands of users. The reason AI data centres are so wasteful with electricity is because a lot of the usage is not out towards anything useful but just wasted on things like generating Google Search summaries.

    • Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      8 hours ago

      It was an example, the brain is wildly more efficient than any computer today. That’s just how it is.