Comment by shakna
4 days ago
> Making 50 SOTA AI requests per day ≈ running a 10W LED bulb for about 2.5 hours per day
This seems remarkably far from what we know. I mean, just to run the data centre aircon will be an order of magnitude greater than that.
Air conditioning for a whole data center services a whole data center, not one machine running a task for 1 min
Yes... But the machines in those data centres don't get there without the companies who put them there. You get no tasks for no minutes, without the infrastructure, and so the infrastructure does actually have to be part of the environmental impact survey.