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Electricity is charged whenever you use it or not, so very unlikely, but sure, they can find uses for it. Although they are not going to make that much money co
by himata4113 8mo ago
Electricity is charged whenever you use it or not, so very unlikely, but sure, they can find uses for it. Although they are not going to make that much money compared to claude code subscriptions.
- eru 8mo ago> Electricity is charged whenever you use it or not, [...] Huh, what? You know you can turn off unused equipment, and at least my nvidia GPU can use more or less Watts even when turned on? Or does Anthropic have a flatline deal for electricity and cooling?
- himata4113 8mo agoin datacenters power allocation is a fixed cost.
- eru 8mo agoIf you are big enough, you can and will negotiate.
- himata4113 8mo agothe datacenter has a fixed cost for power, industrial power is not consumer power especially at large scale. Scale really kicks in if you own your power plant (ex: hydro, wind, solar).
- eru 8mo agoData centres are more complicated than that. For an example, even if you have a fixed power budget at the data centre level, you still have opportunity costs: if you turn some unused GPUs off, you can run other things hotter.