Comment on PC upgrade woes
x00z@lemmy.world 9 hours agoElectricity 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 5 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 5 hours ago
Bless you for saying LLM rather than AI.