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In the late 2000s there was a push by a lot of businesses to not print emails and people use to add a 'Please consider this environment before printing this email.'

Considering how bad LLMs/'ai' are with power consumption and water usage a new useless tag email footer should be made.

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[-] taiyang@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Yup, and the deck can do stuff at an astounding low wattage, like 3W to 15W range. Meanwhile there's gpus that can run at like 400W-800W, like when people used to use two 1080s SLI. I always found it crazy when I saw a guy running a system burning as much electricity as a weak microwave just to play a game, lol. Kept his house warm, tho.

[-] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 2 points 2 days ago

The rule of thumb from data centers is every watt of compute equals 3 watts of energy consumption, 1 to power the thing and 2 to remove the 1 watt of heat, so high power components are really a ton of power

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