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thirsty lil devils
Fwiw a LLM uses as much power as 10 regular Google searches… So it’s almost nothing in the grand scope of things. It might even save some for the people who don’t know how to utilize search engines properly.
We also need more data centers, not fewer. And they use almost no water compared to other utilities.
https://old.lemmy.world/comment/10803727
E: I’ve cleaned up the comment for saucing ease in case you looked at it right away but I’ll quote it here for ease.