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Servers that are no longer cutting edge can be repurposed for hosting websites or doing more basic data processing tasks, or they can be donated to educational
by userbinator 2y ago
Servers that are no longer cutting edge can be repurposed for hosting websites or doing more basic data processing tasks, or they can be donated to educational institutions.
Alternatively, this means that those not doing AI are going to benefit from cheap and powerful equipment; that is, unless the declining efficiency of even non-AI software catches up.
And Microsoft has pledged to limit e-waste production from its data centers.
...while at the same time strongly pushing planned obsolescence in its software.
- more_corn 2y agoAlso, it’s possible to do inference on less than cutting edge hardware. The open models will propagate allover the world and people will run their own local, fine tuned models on e waste.