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Headline 5 Years From Now: A Texas Town's Misery Underscores the Impact of Training Large Language Models Across the U.S. All joking aside - I'm surprised more
by linkjuice4all 3y ago
Headline 5 Years From Now: A Texas Town's Misery Underscores the Impact of Training Large Language Models Across the U.S.
All joking aside - I'm surprised more of these operations aren't switching to "legitimate" computing as a service. They've apparently optimized for running these workloads at low cost so why not just offer gpus-(or whatever the state of the art is for mining)-as-a-service?
- addicted 3y agoTo be fair LLMs have already shown more productive use in the last couple of years than BTC has through its existence, which means applications are more likely to be run by responsible companies that will try and find better ways to get the power they need.
- fullspectrumdev 3y agoI can’t buy drugs with an LLM.
- dixie_land 3y agoThe farms might be running ASICs which are really good for nothing except (very specific) hashing
- wmf 3y agoThey haven't fully depreciated the ASICs yet and they'd take a loss by selling them so they pretty much have to keep mining. AI wouldn't be a bad idea after mining collapses.