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What’s all that AI going to be doing all day to become energy-bound?



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AI as currently modeled can pretty much never get enough data, so mostly data processing, and model generation.

when a query is asked of an AI it has to generate a response from all of that data and the query and response themselves become data

running an LLM on local consumer hardware can take upwards of 20 minutes for a single query, so an AI service that may be responding to up millions of requests a day would need a massive hyper-parallelized server infrastructure




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