Comment on PC upgrade woes
mechoman444@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Idk man, my electricity bill doesn’t care whether the data center powering ChatGPT was “speculatively built” or not. 500 million people actively using these tools daily is not fake demand, that’s just… demand. The money flowing into infrastructure is large and fast and messy, sure, but acting like the entire thing is vapor because the ROI timeline is uncertain is the same logic people used to say Amazon was a scam in 2001. Sometimes the buildout comes before the profit model and that’s just how new infrastructure works. The RAM price sucks though, not gonna lie.
x00z@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Electricity bills have already been increasing heavily around AI datacenters. I read an article about a place in the Netherlands where they can’t build any more houses at the moment because they’re building a datacenter that is going to take that electricity.
mechoman444@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
The data centers are insane. I agree. A flagship LLM model requires 1tb of ram to perform. A Mid-Tier mm model needs 140gb. In contrast a top end gaming rig only needs 64gb at most. The vast majority get away with 16gb.
Aside for driving profits for demand of LLM use these data centers are an environmental disaster.
I was just pointing out these centers are a result of that demand.
jtzl@lemmy.zip 6 hours ago
Bless you for saying LLM rather than AI.