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carunenjoyerlp··on AI's energy footprint
>And also, people should paint their roofs white.

Some could, but a dark roof can be beneficial in the winter

carunenjoyerlp··on AI's energy footprint
HDDs build the backbone of all large storage systems, they serve many purposes today. Magnetic tape is still in use too
carunenjoyerlp··on AI's energy footprint
Net energy change of people doing work on their desk versus browsing the internet versus playing games, you will likely not see difference at all. They're all at rest, more or less thinking something. People at home sofa always have metabolic processes running regardless of whether it produces additional value to some corporation
carunenjoyerlp··on AI's energy footprint
Isn't water just the transfer medium between the server and the heat exchangers outside? How would changing that to oil help?
carunenjoyerlp··on AI's energy footprint
>you might think it’s like measuring a car’s fuel economy or a dishwasher’s energy rating: a knowable value with a shared methodology for calculating it. You’d be wrong.

But everyone knows fuel economy is everything but a knowable value. Everything from if it has rained in the past four hours to temperature to loading of the vehicle to the chemical composition of the fuel (HVO vs traditional), how worn are your tires? Are they installed the right way? Are your brakes lagging? The possibilities are endless. You could end up with twice the consumption.

By the way, copy-pasting from the website is terrible on desktop firefox, the site just lags every second, for a second.